Dreamweaver MX frames problem

I am a relative newbie to DreamweaverMX, and am teaching high school students how to design web sites using frames. I have a problem that hasn't shown up before - when I set my target to main page, the page that's supposed to go into the frame is opened in a brand-new window. (Of course, this happened when I was demonstrating the process to the kids!) Strangely, fully half of the kids had their pages open in the main frame with no problem; the remaining half had the same problem as I did. I'm pretty sure that I follwed the steps correctly, otherwise why would half of the kids who were following along with me have gotten it right?

Puzzled,

Renee

how emberassing.
well there's nothing you can do now is there?
sounds like you set the target to _blank instead of the the frame (mainFrame i think it's called in DW).
For one thing, why would they teach horrible frames in school!

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Hi Alexgeek,
It's part of the curriculum so I have to teach it.
I think I'm beginning to see why everybody says that they suck.
But, I know for a fact that I did set the target to mainframe instead of _blank - that's why I was puzzled.

The strange thing is, when I moved to one of the "successful" kid's computers, the thing worked perfectly.
When I tried it out on my computer again, it didn't work once more!!

(I must say, I prefer teaching Art - fewer chances to look like an idiot...)

I had a good giggle over your description of not having success in front of the class! I think I would have died! hahahaha

After that story, I felt your pain so made a couple of screen shots for you. I don't use frames ever so I didn't have anything exciting to show you ... I hope it helps you figure it out.

This is what your code should look like "if" you used the same labels for each frame. For instance the default in DW is mainFrame

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<a href="index.html" target="mainFrame">home</a>

If it doesn't work, let me know and I'll try to be more helpful.
Actually if that doesn't work try the word main such as

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<a href="index.html" target="main">home</a>

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hi bucholtz,

<frameset cols="80,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="(path)" name="leftFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize>
<frame src="(path)" name="mainFrame">
</frameset>

the above code is for ur index(FrameSet)

if u want a the link to go to the "mainFrame":

<a href="asdfsdfsdf" target="mainFrame">asdfsdfsdf</a>

name of ur frame = target of ur link....

u can change the name of ur frame as long as the target is also the same as the new name of ur frame....

NTOE: the name="mainFrame" is not the same as name="mainframe"!