Loading Multiple Frames

It is possible to load more than one frame from a single link by using the link to load one frame and an OnMouse event to load the other frame(s).

Note:

When using frames give each frame a name, this can be anything of your choosing.
This is so the browser knows which frame to load a document into.

EG

My site consists of two frames which I have called "Navbar", and "Main"

The following code will allow two frames to be loaded from one link.

<a href="page1.htm" target="main" onClick=parent.head.location.href="page2.htm">Load 2 Frames</a>

Page1 is loaded by the HREF into the main frame.
Page2 is loaded by the onClick into the head section.

Try the links in this example

The code for the links in the NavBar are:

<a href="main1.htm" target="main" onClick=parent.head.location.href="head1.htm">Return</a>

<a href="main2.htm" target="main" onClick=parent.head.location.href="head2.htm">Link 1</a>

Because you are loading two pages from one link you have to include the target attribute in the href for the first page.
If you use a lot of these links on the same page you could put <base target="main"> (main being the target frame) immediately after the opening <Body> tag to save typing it in at every link.

The target frame for the second page is stated in the onClick event

onClick=parent.head.location.href="page.htm"

With head being the second target frame.

Example 2 shows three links loading two different pages with each link

You start with page1 and head1, the nav page remains the same

The code for the links in the NavBar are:

<a href="maina.htm" target="main" onClick=parent.head.location.href="head.htm">Return</a>

<a href="main2.htm" target="main" onClick=parent.head.location.href="head2.htm">Link 1</a>

<a href="main3.htm" target="main" onClick=parent.head.location.href="head3.htm">Link 2</a>

This type of link can be used in any one of your frames providing you change the targets to suit.

An example of use can be seen in my Web Plus section under Sound then select Open & Play.
There is a link on that page that will take you to a specific page within another frameset and load that framesets header and navbar.
You would normally have to Select Sound, which will load the frameset, then select the page from the navbar, Sound, sublink Embedding Sound.

Below is the link code to load three frames.

<a href="page1.htm" target="main" onClick=parent.head.location.href="page2.htm;onClick=parent.main2.location.href="page3.htm">Your Link</a>