With frames you can tell a certain link to appear in another frame, in another window, into a new blank window that is the same screen that the other frame was in, into itself, or into its parent frame (the frame above it in the frame set if there is nothing above it the link will just appear in the same frame). In order to get the link to appear in another frame you first need to name the other frame. Then you would enter a modifier in the A HREF command this modifier is the word TARGET then an equal sign “=” then the name of the frame. The source code for a link in a frame that is targeted into another frame called Main would look like this:
<A HREF=”temp.html” TARGET=”Main”>Temporary</A>
If you wanted the link to appear in a completely new window then you would enter a “magic” command after the equal sign “=” in the TARGET modifier, this command is an underscore “_” followed by the word blank. The final source for a link in a frame that opens a new window would look like this:
<A HREF=”temp.html” TARGET=”_BLANK”>Temporary</A>
If you wanted the link to appear in a new blank screen but not a new window then you would enter another magic modifier. This modifier is an underscore “_” followed by the word TOP. The final source code would look like this:
<A HREF=”temp.html” TARGET=”_TOP”>Temporary</A>
If you wanted the link to appear in the same frame that it is in you would use another magic modifier. This modifier is an underscore “_” followed by the word SELF. The final source code would look like this:
<A HREF=”temp.html” TARGET=”_SELF”>Temporary</A>
If you wanted the link to appear in the parent frame in it’s frame set you would use another magic modifier. This modifier is a underscore “_” followed be the word PARENT. The final source code would look like this:
If you want all the links in a certain frame to be going to the same frame or magic link then you would enter, at the beginning of the document just after the body command or if you want before the first link, an angle bracket “<“ followed by the word BASE followed by the word TARGET followed by an equal sign followed by the name for the frame or the magic modifier followed by an angle bracket “>”. (Any base target can be overridden by the targets in the A HREF command.) The final source code for this base targeted to a frame named main would look like this:
<BASE TARGET=”Main”>
The same modifiers can be used in the IMAGE MAP command.