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Safari and opening target links in frames

branana

branana

macrumors member
Original poster
Jan 15, 2006
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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:

Code: 
<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 :(
 
Ok, here is a frameset that works in Safari. Check it out to see if there's something you missed:

(Frameset)
Code: 
<!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)
Code: 
<!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="https://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 ;)
 
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")
 
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