passing a Javascript command to out of an iFrame to athe parent frame

[Bigbob666]

Hello. Right i have a javascript navigation that runs fine on the top level
html page, this then loads in pages into an iFrame, then in these '2nd level
pages' there are links to diferent sections of the site meaning that the 'top
level' nav has to change to indicate where in the site you have moved to. So
the command that works fine on the top level is: <a
href='HTML/symptomSorter.html' target='mainContent'
onclick='javascript:showMenu(6)'> so it loads symptomSorter.html into the main
content frame and also tells the javascript menu to highlight element 6 on the
menu. all fine so far... then on the symptomSorter.html there is a link which
loads a page from a diferent section into the same frame it is in, but i need
to let the top level navigation know to highlight element 3 so what i tried
was: <a href='products_mainpage.html'
onClick='parent.javascript:showMenu(3)'>link</a> and <a
href='parent.javascript:showMenu(3)' >link</a> and <a
href='javascript:parent.showMenu(3)' >link</a> and <a
href='javascript:window.parent.showMenu(3)' >link</a> but none worked, there
must be an easy way to to parse the javascript command showMenu(3) to the to
level?? Thanks for any help in this matter is appreciated its driving me mad!
Rob.

[Bigbob666]

a s'ok found a way:

..top works to route to the top level html from within an iFrame.