Here is a sample of a number of "onMouseOver/onMouseOut" statements in my script. They work from the bottom of the contents of one frame and the result shows in another.

<a href="" onMouseOver='top.panl.location="../../definitions/rules/definition.php"' onMouseOut='top.panl.location="../../toc.htm"'>Rules</a><br>

As it is, it works almost fine in that if the content to be shown in the other frame is bigger than the screen real estate, I can click the link when the mouse is over it and gain access to the other frame with the mouse for scrolling.

However, the frame in which the "onMouse..." event happen returns to the top of the page. How can I avoid this and still have access to the other frame as explained above?

If I change '<a href=""' to '<a href="#"' (or some other value) then I lose access to the other frame, the same happen if I use the "onClick" event to return to the same part of the frame.

Thank you for your help.

I think the root of this problem is that clicking on a link (an <A> tag) will generate a page-load (or frame-load); either you get a new page, or a refresh of the old one.

The only way I have ever found to keep a clicked-on <A> tag from reloading the frame (or page) is to put in an explicit javascript function: Otherwise, as you noted, either you don't actually have a link (href="#") or you get a page reload. This is quite often irritating, but I have found that putting the javascript pseudo-URL produces the result that I think you are after.

Thank you for the answer, I'll do that.