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branana
Mar 30, 2006, 04:08 PM
I'm having a problem with my Safari. It doesn't seem to recognize frames with their names properly.

So, say there is a frame called bob,
and a link:

<a href="newpage.htm" target="bob">click</a>

When link is clicked, newpage.htm would always open in a new safari window. This is not just for a site I made. The pages in question include various scripts, phpmyadmin etc, all of which has this target frames opening in new window issue. I am running the latest versions of OSX/Safari on 2 machines, a PPC one and a x86 one, same problem.

The developement machine is running Apache 2, php 5.12.

The problem happens in Webkit browsers: tested: Safari, Shiira
The problem does NOT occur in Gecko: Firefox, Camino
It does NOT occur in Opera either.

Any help is appreciated, I couldn't find much information on it on Google. It's a bit WTF :(


floyde
Mar 30, 2006, 06:38 PM
Ok, here is a frameset that works in Safari. Check it out to see if there's something you missed:

(Frameset)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>A simple frameset document</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET cols="20%, 80%">
<FRAME src="frame.htm">
<FRAME name="bob" src="http://www.apple.com/">
<NOFRAMES>
<P>This frameset document contains:
<UL>
<LI><A href="contents_of_frame1.html">Some neat contents</A>
<LI><A href="contents_of_frame3.html">Some other neat contents</A>
</UL>
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>


(Left frame)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Frame</title>
</head>

<body>
<div><a href="http://www.macrumors.com" target="bob">Go to macrumors!</a></div>
</body>

</html>


I just found out that there's no target attribute on xhtml strict, so make sure that you are not using the strict doctype ;)
Sean7512
Mar 30, 2006, 07:38 PM
I had the same problem...After a bit of searching the internet, I found a EASY solution. Where you name your iframe, you need to include an "id" attribute that has the same name as your iframe. For example:

<iframe frameborder="0" src="home.html" width="100%" height="500" id="bob" name="bob"></iframe>

For whatever reason, Safari will not recognize the name attribute for a iframe. You need the id attribute. Make sure you use both name and id, otherwise other browsers will not work.

EDIT: Then you would use the code the exact same as you have it (with the target="bob")