showing javascript context menus outside frames...

jxn · February 1st, 2006, 02:56 PM

I seem to be having problems displaying context menus outside of framed sections... right now I've got a sort of sidebar in an iframe, with a bunch of links, each of which display large context menu (an iframe in itself) onclick. However, the context menu is confined to the iframe, forcing the bulk of its information to remain hidden. Is there anyway I can get this popup context menu to display in the main frame, outside of the iframe? Thanks.

ChrisScott · February 2nd, 2006, 09:55 AM

You could adjust you code to add the context menu to the parent window that contains your iframe, maybe using parent.document for instance rather than document

HTH,

Chris

jxn · February 2nd, 2006, 01:51 PM

excellent! I'd attempted this, but I apparently made a typo and omitted the "document" from "parent.document". It's working great now, other than the fact that when the menu is called open now, iframe seems to reload, scrolling back up to position zero... Is there a simple way to stop it from doing that?

I'm setting the position onClick using the style top and left elements at the values of event.clientX and event.ClientY when the mouse clicks the link to open the context menu from within the iframe, if that helps (or is understandable, for that matter).

thanks.

ChrisScott · February 3rd, 2006, 04:51 AM

Can you post the html for the link that you are clicking please?

Cheers,

Chris

jxn · February 3rd, 2006, 10:43 AM

sure...

Code:

<a href="" onclick="var targetDiv = parent.document.getElementById('iframeContext'); targetDiv.style.top = event.clientY + 'px'; targetDiv.style.left = event.clientX + 'px'; targetDiv.style.position = 'absolute'; targetDiv.className = 'albumContext'; targetDiv.src = './widgets/albumInfoContext.php?cdid=<?=$s[cddbid]?>'; "><?php echo($s[artist])?></a>

jxn · February 3rd, 2006, 07:53 PM

oops; on further inspection, I am an idiot. the href="" focuses the page at the top, duh.

thanks, though.