Using jump menu in one frame to open page in another frame - works in IE but not Firefox

Hi,
I'm a beginner designer. I've been working to create a template for a website in which there is a banner in a frame across the top and three frames beneath - left for navigation and middle and right for content that can be compared.
I have created two jump menus in the left frame using Dreamweaver's option for it (insert/forms/jump menu): one menu to load pages in the middle frame (in the code this is 'left') and one menu to load pages in the right frame (in the code this is 'right'). Both menus use a go button.
Using Internet Explorer and allowing active content to run it works fine. In Firefox clicking 'go' does nothing however I have links in this navigation that will open a page in the middle or right ('left' and 'right') frames and if I use these the jump menus will now work.
How can I get it to work straight off?
Any feedback is welcome (except regarding not using frames!).
Ian
Code for this navigation page is below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore){ //v3.0
  eval(targ+".location='"+selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value+"'");
  if (restore) selObj.selectedIndex=0;
function MM_jumpMenuGo(objId,targ,restore){ //v9.0
  var selObj = null;  with (document) {
  if (getElementById) selObj = getElementById(objId);
  if (selObj) eval(targ+".location='"+selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value+"'");
  if (restore) selObj.selectedIndex=0; }
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Navigation</h1>
<p><a href="../Something/Pages_One/Alabama.html" target="left">Example</a></p>
<p><a href="Left Frame 01.html" target="left">Left Frame 1</a></p>
<p><a href="Left Frame 02.html" target="left">Left Frame 2</a></p>
<p><a href="Right Frame 01.html" target="right">Right Frame 1</a></p>
<p><a href="Right Frame 02.html" target="right">Right Frame 2</a></p>
<p>Select a page to view in the left frame</p>
<form name="form" id="form">
  <select name="jumpMenu" id="jumpMenu">
    <option value="Left Frame 01.html">Left frame 01</option>
    <option value="Left Frame 02.html">Left frame 02</option>
    <option value="Left Frame 03.html">Left frame 03</option>
  </select>
  <input type="button" name="go_button" id= "go_button" value="Go" onclick="MM_jumpMenuGo('jumpMenu','parent.frames[\'left\']',0)" />
</form>
<p>Select a page to view in the right frame</p>
<form name="form2" id="form2">
  <select name="jumpMenu2" id="jumpMenu2">
    <option value="Right Frame 01.html">Right frame 01</option>
    <option value="Right Frame 02.html">Right frame 02</option>
    <option value="Right Frame 03.html">Right frame 03</option>
  </select>
  <input type="button" name="go_button2" id= "go_button2" value="Go" onclick="MM_jumpMenuGo('jumpMenu2','parent.frames[\'right\']',0)" />
</form>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>

Geronimo23 wrote:
Given that it doesn't work initially in Firefox then it does once I load a page in the destination frame I decided to create a page with a link to the frameset. Using the link to get to the frameset the jump menu now works perfectly. Must be one of the wonders of using frames. Well I guess that's solved but out of curiosity, any ideas for why it wouldn't work when the frameset is loaded on its own?
It might be due to the fact that you're using XHTML 1.0 Transitional, a DOCTYPE that does not support framesets. Try converting to HTML 4.01 Transitional or HTML 4.01 Frameset if you do not need or understand XHTML. Or use XHTML 1.0 Frameset if you really need XHTML.
Refs: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html ; http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-A1 ; http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML-1.0-Frameset
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :-)

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