Help with IFRAME and grabbing URL

Hi all,

I need help with a iframe question.

I have a forum that loads in an iframe of another page. It all works great as it is and i don't want to change the way its setup up.

however when someone tries to bookmark a they can only book mark the page than contains the iframe and not the page they are looking at.

So i'm trying to create a permalink on the page that contains the iframe and have this dynamically updated using the onclick event of a button on the parent page.

So far i have managed to get the current url of the iframe and display it in an alert box, the next stage and the stage i can't figure out is to change that so that when the iframe is loaded the current url is saved to a variable on the parent page. Does that make sense.

So the code for the onclick event is:

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onclick="alert(document.getElementById('forum').contentWindow.location)"

So how do i get this to be saved a variable that i can use. it would be better if i could be a onload event of the iframe but i believe that its not supported in IE.

Any help greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

Tom

I would highly doubt there is a need to use frames in this instance. If you are trying to surround your forum with a higher level of navigation or some border, or whatever else really, then there's no need.

This is just one of the many problems you face.

Most forum softwares have a header and footer template you can edit, so therefore you can theoretically surround your forum with anything.

If you really really do have to keep frames, then could you give us a url, or build a really crude demo so we can look at something?

I imagine a javascript to get this going would be very simple and should be aimed at the frames parent.

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Rob - Webforumz Founder

the reason we have used iframes for this is that the forum software doesn't integrate into the page at all. We've edited the headers and footers but the software still doesn't integrate into the page. Something about how the page is processed is stopping or overwriting the rest of the pages. it doesn't happen to every page which makes it stranger.

So we've put it in a iframe to make life simpler, and also we don't have the time to site and debug the whole application, we've already spent 2 days trying to get it to work.

I can't give a url as its in a members only section of the website, but i can build a crude demo tonight and post it up, if you bear with me i'll do it tonight and post a url.

Thanks in advance

Tom

Why not pm me the url...

I've used almost every forum software and might know away around this.

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Rob - Webforumz Founder

I'm sorry i can't the forum is inthe members section of the site which is live.

The forum software is snitz forum. Like i said two of us haven spent two days trying to figure it out, but any help would be appreciated.

luckily for you I know snitz and ASP like the back of my hand...........

I will PM you.

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Rob - Webforumz Founder

that would be great!!

Thanks very much