Complicated issue in breaking out of an iFrame and loading the 'return url'

Question

Hello All

I've the following issue using iframes.

I've an iFrame 'frameParent'. Inside frameParent i've a page 'parentPage.aspx' with several links in the format

http://test.aspx?pageURL=http://something.aspx?returnUrl=http://domain/parentPage.aspx

So when you click the link test.aspx gets loaded inside frameParent. Inside test.aspx i've a frame 'childFrame'. Using a JS function in test.aspx, i take the pageURL

http://something.aspx?returnUrl=http://domain/parentPage.aspx

and set it as the src for childFrame.

So something.aspx gets loaded inside 'childFrame' with returnUrl as the same parentPage.aspx.

After clicking OK or Cancel in something.aspx i return back to parentPage.aspx. But i dont want to load parentPage.aspx in childFrame (since something.aspx is in childFrame). I want to break out and load it in the parentFrame.

How can i do that?

Hope i've explained well.

Answer 1

<a href="stuff" target="_parent">loads one frame up</a>
<a href="stuff" target="_top">loads in the very top frame if there are multiple nested frames.</a>

Answer 2

All possible values for the "target" attribute of an "a" tag : http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp