multiple url targets in frames

[jdulberg]

I have a drop-down menu within a frame that is spawed with a href="#" on a button. I have it set up so when you click the button that spawns a page in the content frame.

Problem is that 1 of the buttons needs to open a new window. I can't use a target=_top or whatever 'cuz that would just load the navigation again.

I tried this but it just loads it in the same window:
... onmouseup="top.location.href='url.com'; ...

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[JohnP]

Try:

onMouseUp="window.open('url.com');"

That should do the trick.

[jdulberg]

Thanks for your suggestion. Just tried it but it didn't load the new window. Is there anything else that I can try?

[JohnP]

If you can post the code for your navigation or the URL, I'll see if I can figure it out.

[jdulberg]

Its a work in progress so unfortuntely, there's no online version so I gotta give all the code here.

Ok, here's the button that should spawn the dropdown menu and when the actual button is clicked, should open a window.

<A onmouseover="menu('multimedia','','show','ileft','','show','ilower','','show','iright','','show','itop','','show','art','','hide','ahist','','hide','drama','','hide','music','','hide','home','','hide')"
href="#" onmouseup="window.open=('url.com');"><img src="fx/nav/multimedia.jpg" width="134" height="15" border="0" alt="Multimedia"></a></TD>

ileft, ilower etc, are the areas that when moused over, the dropdown menu will close.

Here is the js that is called by "menu"

function MM_findObj(n, d) {
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document;
if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n];
for(i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); return x;
}

function tmt_findObj(n){
var x,t;
if((n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length){t=n.split("?");
x=eval("parent.frames['"+t[1]+"'].document.getElementById('"+t[0]+"')");
}
else{x=document.getElementById(n)}
return x;
}

function menu() {
var i,p,v,obj,args=menu.arguments;
if(document.getElementById){
for (i=0; i<(args.length-2); i+=3){
obj=tmt_findObj(args[i]);v=args[i+2];
v=(v=='show')?'visible'v='hide')?'hidden':v;
if(obj)obj.style.visibility=v;}}
else{
for (i=0; i<(args.length-2);i+=3)
if ((obj=MM_findObj(args[i]))!=null) { v=args[i+2];
if (obj.style) { obj=obj.style; v=(v=='show')?'visible'v='hide')?'hidden':v; }
obj.visibility=v;}
}
}


Here is the <div> tag for what the menu item looks like:
<div id=multimedia style="Z-INDEX: 3; LEFT: 290px; VISIBILITY: hidden; WIDTH: 100px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 47px; HEIGHT: 1px">

Its one of those Dreamweaver made scripts so that might be what the problem is.

I appreciate your help with this!!

[JohnP]

Take out the 2nd = sign in:

onmouseup="window.open=('url.com');"

so it reads:

onmouseup="window.open('url.com');"

and see if it pops the window then. If not, I'll take a closer look at the rest of the code also.

[jdulberg]

Works like a charm!!! I can't believe I didn't notice that! Such a stupid error. Guess the stupid errors are always the one's that cause the headaches.

Thanks again!