Frames Hyperlinks in IE6

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Neil McNamara

I have 2 new PC's with XP and IE6 installed. All is well
until I browse through a frames based page.

For example if a site has a menu column with 'buttons' on
and I click a button - the new page opens as if I had
clicked 'open in new window' i.e. just the target page
opens and all other frames disappear.

Does anyone have any idea what is wrong - everything else
appears ok.

Thanks Neil
 
Neil McNamara said:
I have 2 new PC's with XP and IE6 installed. All is well
until I browse through a frames based page.

For example if a site has a menu column with 'buttons' on
and I click a button - the new page opens as if I had
clicked 'open in new window' i.e. just the target page
opens and all other frames disappear.

Does anyone have any idea what is wrong - everything else
appears ok.
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This doesn't sound like a browser problem. Can you provide an example URL?
 
Sure

try my own personal website at http://www.kneeonline.net
for example. If I click on the menu buttons the whole
page is replaced by the target page and the button frame
disappears.

Tried it on literally hundreds of sites and they are all
the same - it is most confusing and both PCs are the same.

Can't seem to reproduce it on any other PC

Neil
 
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Neil McNamara said:
try my own personal website at http://www.kneeonline.net
for example. If I click on the menu buttons the whole
page is replaced by the target page and the button frame
disappears.
Click to expand...

Works fine here (IE6, non-SP1) -- only the right content frame updates, as
expected. I even see the title "slide" transition on each new frame.

Perhaps it has something to do with your using an improper DTD?
Here is a correct one:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN">
 
Robert Aldwinckle said:
Where would we look for this? The flash of white that I mentioned
is the only unusual thing that I noticed. It seems to happen at the top
mostly but I think that I have seen the whole frame flash that way too.
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Its a PowerPoint-type transition effect that is proprietary to IE. In this
case, the title at the top of page (orange "kneeonline") "slides" in from the
right margin. More here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/filters.asp
Here's what I see for that:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

As I understand it this is transitional to XHTML? So perhaps his version
of MSXML is a factor?
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No, that DTD pre-dates XHTML. It represents the "last" version of
conventional HTML. There is nothing in the OP's code to indicate that he
intended it as XHTML (eg, <br /> instead of <br>, all lc attributes). The
point is that it should be declared as a frameset, not transitional. In fact,
this may have nothing to do with the "problem," but since I can't reproduce
it, can only note my observations of things I see that are not quite right.
 
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