2 questions in ASP and HTML:

1) If I have a HTML page with one side frame and a main one, and in the side one there are 2 fields to fill in username and password and a login button:
<input type="Submit" value="Login">
The button leads to an ASP page that does a check and then writes "Welcome, username" or "Wrong username", the problem is that the messages are shown in the side frame, how do I do it so it will be shown in the main frame???

2) How do I make it so when I click the login button, It will show a message in the main frame, for a few seconds, and then automatically return to homepage??

Thank you...

those are pure html/javascript issues, no ASP is involved.
1. have such form:
<form action="login.asp" method="post" target="main_frame">
where "main_frame" is the name of the main frame as defined in the frameset.
2. have such button instead of submit button:

not sure it would work, but hopefully it would show the message and submit after 5 seconds.

Thanks alot

if you have a form defined (something like this)



you can use the target tag:



which tells the browser change the main page, not just the frame.
_parent is an HTML constant.

I prefer this method because it doesn't involve java script, which in my opinion is best kept to a minimum.

My opinion exactly...thanks

yep but such code won't cause any delay before submitting...

...Or just don't use (evil) frames and wait untill the XFrames specification is ratified and supported?

After all, with fairly consistent CSS2.1 support around thesedays, it renders frames obsolete anyway