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Probelm with Python CGI

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Tue Dec 17 23:13:12 EST 2002 
"Innovate" <lnader2000 at yahoo.com> wrote ...
> I have a 2 frame setup (menu and main) done in plain HTML not in
> python. On my "main" frame if I click on a link with a python cgi
> script in the href.  The script executes successfully and returns the
> HTML page in the "main" frame.  But now if I click on any links in the
> "menu" frame with target="main" it will open in a new window instead
> of going to the "main" frame.
>
> I have run a bunch of tests and this only happens if I click on a link
> that points to my python script.  It seems as if the browser loses the
> frame information.
>
> Any idea what I could be doing wrong?
>

This is pretty much definitely not a Python problem. You've almost certainly
not managed to call your frames what you think you have called them.

Put a link, either to an HTML page or to a Python script, with the
target="main" attribute in your (allegedly) main frame, and see whether that
appears in a new window. If it does then your frame isn't really called
main, and that's why links with no target attribute appear in the same page,
but links with target="main" appear in a new window.

Then read an HTML reference on frame naming ;-)

By the way, next time some sample HTML code would help. Good job all regular
c.l.py readers are psychic.

regards
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