Changing the src of a frame using Javascript (newbie q)

[CaptainPinko]

I have two frames: a main body frame, and a bottom frame with buttons that are used to navigate amongst the pages. I want to make it so that when you click on a button in the button frame it will change the contents of the main frame. The frames are 'fraMain' and 'fraNavig'.

[scoutt]

set the target to the frame you want,
e.g. <a href="file.html" target="fraMain">

if this is not what you are after, can you show some code you are using?

[CaptainPinko]

I know how to do it in HTML but I was wondering if could do it in JavaScript.
basically the contents of fraNavig are bunch of

<input type = "button" name = "butMain" value="Main" onClick="">

It is in the onClick that I want to insert the change frame source. I need to do it in JavaScript for reasons I don't feel like explaining.

[scoutt]

sure I understand. you could do something like this

function load() {
  parent.frames.top.location = "main.html";
}

onClick="load()">

see if that works

[CaptainPinko]

I don't see the part where I specify that I want this new page opened in "fraMain"...
All that code did was open up a pagethat replaced my frames page, but I just want to open the page into an existing frame

[scoutt]

sorry I thought it would go into the parent. ok try adding a .parent to the code, so it would be

parent.parent.frames

[Captain Pinko]

Thnx for the help Scoutt, but I got it now. I took a look at an e-book and kinda hacked it out.
For anyone looking for good JavaScript info go:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla...ok/javascript/

For anyone who was following along here is the answer:

parent.window.XXXX.location = "http://YYYYY"
where XXXX is the frame name and YYYYY is the URL that you want to go to.

[scoutt]

oh crap, my bad. I see what I did

function load() {
  parent.frames.fraMain.location = "main.html";
}

sorry that should work.

[scoutt]

ya i forgot to change the name of the frame. I just took out of one of my pages and forgot to change it. I will also take a look at that page. thanks for the link.