How do I freeze the URL displayed in a visitors browser?
This is a “feature” of using frames: The browser displays the URL of the frameset document, rather than that of the framed documents. (See the answer to the question “How do I specify a specific combination of frames instead of the default document?”). However, this behavior can be circumvented easily by the user. Many browsers allow the user to open links in their own windows, to bookmark the document in a specific frame (rather than the frameset document), or to bookmark links. Thus, there is no reliable way to stop a user from getting the URL of a specific document. Furthermore, preventing users from bookmarking specific documents can only antagonize them. A bookmark or link that doesn’t find the desired document is useless, and probably will be ignored or deleted.
This is a “feature” of using frames: The browser displays the URL of the frameset document, rather than that of the framed documents. However, this behavior can be circumvented easily by the user. Many browsers allow the user to open links in their own windows, to bookmark the document in a specific frame (rather than the frameset document), or to bookmark links. Thus, there is no reliable way to stop a user from getting the URL of a specific document. Furthermore, preventing users from bookmarking specific documents can only antagonize them. A bookmark or link that doesn’t find the desired document is useless, and probably will be ignored or deleted.
