272439 - Links in separate window that target a specific frame causes new window to open

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Welch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041130

The following scenario used to work correctly in Mozilla 5.0 rv 1.7 (Firefox
0.9.2)  When I upgraded Firefox to 1.0 (Mozilla 5.0 rv 1.7.5) the problem
started.  This scenario also works correctly in IE 6.0.

I use a small navigation window to command a document in frame 2 of a 2 frame
frameset to scroll to a specific point.  A link in the nav window looks like: <a
target="rightFrame" href=input.htm#one>One</a>  The document in the frame has <a
name=one>, <a name=two>, etc.  In the frameset, the frame 1 is named leftFrame
and the frame 2 is named rightFrame.  When a link in the nav window is clicked,
instead of the doc in rightFrame scrolling to the correct location, a new window
opens containing the doc scrolled to the correct location.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load document twoframe.htm
2. In frame 2, click 'Navigator'
3. In the Navigator Window, click any of the links

Actual Results:  
Instead of the document in rightFrame scrolling to the requested location, a new
window opens with the document loaded and scrolled to the requested location.

Expected Results:  
The document in rightFrame should have scrolled to the location specified by the
link in the navigator window.

Comment 1

[Tom Welch]

Attachment: Three htm files that reproduce the problem

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The patch in bug 103638 fixes this.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, looks like the patch that went in in the end doesn't help here,
because of the document.write stuff...  Bug 270414 covers that.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by checkin for bug 270414