Orphaned frame page redirect?

**BillDugan** · Jul 30, 2003 18:05

I have designed a website using frames. The site has been indexed by Google - actually, 2 pages of the frameset have been indexed. And neither has working navigation. Is there a bit of JavaScript that will detect if a page is part of a frameset and if not, then redirect to the index page frameset?

TIA - Bill Dugan

**serfer3** · Jul 30, 2003 19:57

Code:

function toframes() {
    if (self == top) 
        window.open("http://example.com/frameset.html","_top","location=no,status=no,toolbar=no");
}

then call the function with:

Code:

<body onLoad="toframes()">

**Setac** · Jul 31, 2003 08:51

There are all sorts of scripts to handle this problem.

Most just call a basic framset without regard for the page found. Search engines are not fond of sites that do this with redirects are often penalized. I wanted to have the Ferrari a visitor found via a search come up when the framset was loaded.

I have a site with 2 standard frames both of which can have any number of pages loaded in the frame set. I designed the frameset to read the querystring and load the main frame according to a passed variable. All of the 'framed' pages include a script that calls the frameset and passes the page name in the URL call.

Code:

 <!----// Include File - Javascript
 // Test if in frame
 var sName = "ferrari_inventory";   // window name to look for...
 var tName = "ferrari_frame.html"   // frame parent's file name
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------
 tName =  tName + "?";
 var sThisPage = window.location + "";  // get this window name 
 // --- Strip name to page name
 var sReg  =  /\//;	   //set search string
 var i = sThisPage.search( sReg);   //search for / symbol
 do {
  sThisPage = sThisPage.slice( i);
  i = sThisPage.search( sReg) +1;
 } while( i > 0);
 var hName = tName + sThisPage;	// host frame page to goto
 if( window.self.name != sName )  {
				location.replace(hName);
  }
 //-->

sName holds the name of the frame being targeted. If the page is not loaded within this frame, it then calls the parent frameset. The frame name is used to reduce use of these pages by other web sites.

tName holds the name of the framset to call. This lets me use the script with either framset.

The script then finds the current page name and builds it into a call to the framset.

Location.replace is used to avoid creating a mouse trap.

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