If I understand you correctly, you could add a TARGET="_top" in the link with the icon to the index-page. This will make sure that you allways get a whole page after clicking on an icon... This will however require that you edit all your familyxxx-pages. If you like javascript (and can live with the fact that some people use browsers that can not (or with users that disable it) use javascript) it is possible to check if your page is loaded within another page (and hence "break out" of this recursive frame-stuff if necesarry) Hope this helps! Regards, Per Harald Jonson At 22:17 10-05-01 +1000, you wrote: >This may be a little off-topic but I hope not too much, and since traffic has been a little light lately I thought I might get away with it! >I am in the process of trying to put my database on the web but I am a novice in the world of HTML although I was reasonably proficient in the use of Applesoft Basic back in my Apple //e days. >I have a problem, a problem of my own making I hasten to add. Two of my own deliberate actions have created the impasse I face. > >1. To the standard web site created by version 3.06 I have added a two page introduction. I prepared this in the Lotus Freelance Graphics presentation program and it takes this programs standard format of a 2-frame page style, a 21% "Table of Contents" on the left and the 79% main on the right. >2. I have made some substantial alterations to the HTML source code for the "fam000xx" pages, one of which was to give each page a more meaningful title e.g. "Family of Alan & Diane PLATO". On consideration I came to realise that I had thereby made it possible for search engines to find any such page directly so I added an icon with a link to the introductory page to each. > >The problem? A "fam000xx" page opened directly occupies the full screen and when the link on such a page is activated the viewer is taken to the 2-frame introductory page as expected. so far so good. However, when the same page is accessed from the Table of Contents on the introductory page it occupies only 79% of the screen but has the same link on it which when activated now adds a second Table of Contents frame being 21% of the original main frame which as a result becomes much narrower. > >In my old basic days I'm sure the old faithful if-then-else statement would have enabled me to either; >a. hide or reveal the link icon, or >b. 're-target' the link >depending on how the viewer had got to the page; but I don't seem to be able to find a way to bend HTML to my will in the same way. >Are there any experts out there who could gently point me in the right direction? Any help at all would be very much appreciated. >Thank you for your tolerance. >Alan Plato > > >==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] (for individual messages) > [email protected] (for Digest mode) >Subject: unsubscribe >In the body include only one word: unsubscribe >(Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >