I have recently decided to build my website, Ive done a split frameset top and bottom. In the main html page called "banner" is the banner pic and a spry menu. When you click on an item in the menu bar it loads the page in the top part, how can I change the target to choose the bottom part of the frameset?

Ive just noticed that if I go into a page which has split frames and has the menu as the top I can click on the first main menu item and select source and a target which has "blank, self, parent, top but also has mainframe and topframe" but when I goto the banner page and try editing the source or targets of sub menus I only get the options "blank, self, parent or top" so nothing to tell the browser to open the linked page in the bottom half.

Im sure its a stupid mistake but its getting late and I cant think straight.

going to bed, will hope for a reply in the morning. thanks

Sorry if this doesnt make sense, but im trying to explain best I can.

thanks in advance.

T

Ive done a split frameset top and bottom

If you want to build a MODERN web site, do NOT use moldy old frames!
There are many reasons why frames are bad, not the least of which is there's really no good reason to use them any more. They are a usability nightmare for another. Then you have page load times because instead of loading ONE page, you are loading MULTIPLE pages. Then you have the search engine spider problem.

Don't use frames. Learn to build sites w/o tables for layout using CSS and you'll be on track to build a MODERN web site.

If your building a site using frames you really don't know anything about webdesign, most people and company's these days are using xhtml & css you, should look into building a site using css and not frames. I don't mean to sound harsh but i just hate people using frames.

most people and company's these days are using xhtml & css you, should look into building a site using css and not frames.

Frames can be XHTML and CSS

There are reasons to use frames and companies are using them right now. What do you think those google adsense blocks are? Javascripts calling and loading iframes to keep the spiders from spidering their own content.

Or if you want to load up another application from a provider that does not have XML services. For instance, Multiple Listing Services for real estate agents. their listing pages. Also some widget are loaded with iframes.

here is your answer;

target="bottomFrame"

<frame name="topFrame" src="header.htm">
<frame name="contentFrame" src="home.htm">
<frame name="bottomFrame" src="footer.htm">

Adsense blocks are NOT in iframes, if they were the crawler would not be able to get the context from the main page. The javascript that generates the ads creates a table or a list delending on the layout.

so, what has the code you posted got to do with iframes?

And, BTW, it is an incomplete frameset definition.