# Button linking

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-linking/269>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 11, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-linking/269 "2002-07-11T19:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FnyBoy4021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d2c977/32.png) [@FnyBoy4021](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FnyBoy4021)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-linking/269/1 "2002-07-11T19:17:00Z")

</div>

sorrie…ima newb… i made a menu bar in flash with buttons on it…i would like it to link to my page im making in dreamweaver…on myu page, i have a left and right frame, i want the menu in the left, and wherever the link takes to the right, i tried the \_parent link, but it links it to the left frame, any idea on how to link to the right frame?

thx for the help

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-linking/269/2 "2002-07-11T20:49:46Z")

</div>

It works the same way in Flash and HTML. In short, you have to give the right frame a name in your frames HTML and have your Flash buttons target that frame. Open up your frames HTML and edit the frame code for the right frame to have a name. For example:

\<frame src=“right.html” [COLOR=red]name=“right\_frame”[/COLOR]\>

Note the code in red. Now you just have to configure the getURL code to target that frame by changing it to “right\_frame” instead of “\_parent.”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-linking/269/3 "2002-07-12T18:54:42Z")

</div>

hmmm…thx for the help…but it doesnt seem to work  
i went into dreamweaver, called the frame “right” and it says src=right.htm and name=right…i went into flash, and in the goto url target, i typed “right\_frame” it didnt work…should i type sumtin else? plz help me…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-linking/269/4 "2002-07-13T01:25:06Z")

</div>

If you named the frame “name=right” in the HTML file (according to what you wrote above) your target must also be “right” in the flash file. Make sure both are the same.