My site is at http://websitesbygeorge.net/.

The top links take the PHP link pages outside of the Iframe I set aside for it.

Browse - What's New - What's Cool - What's Popular - Add A Site - About

The Rest:

Arts & Humanities
Business
Computers & Internet
Education
Entertainment
Government
Health
News & Media
Recreation & Sports
Reference
Regional
Science
Social Science
Society & Culture

Stay in like the way I had hoped.
What must I do so that the top links behave like all the category links?

The top nav buttons have a target set ...
target="_top"

To ensure these links stay within your frameset you could just remove the target= entirely, or change "_top" to the name of your target frame.

To do that edit /themes/YOURTHEME/navbar.top.php look for
target="_top" or target=\"_top\" (depending on if the string is defined with double or single quotes) and edit accordingly.

Hi
First of all thank you for your quick response, and your dedication to this project.
RE: To ensure these links stay within your frameset you could just remove the target= entirely, or change "_top" to the name of your target frame.

I edited as you mentioned or so I hope I understood right. I went for the route of deleting -

$html .= "target=\"_top\" href=\"$gl[BasePath]/directory/";
but
The top navigation links still have the same behavior of jumping out of the frame set.

This is how I left it:
<?
// *******************************************************************
// themes/original/navbar.top.php
// *******************************************************************
$and = "?";
$html = "\r\n<!-- Start Top NavBar Table themes/original/navbar.top.php -->";
$html .= "\r\n<table cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"100%\" ";
$html .= "border=\"0\">\r\n<tr>\r\n\t<td nowrap=\"nowrap\">\r\n\t<table ";
$html .= "class=\"homebalkback\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" ";
$html .= "width=\"100%\" border=\"1\">\r\n\t<tr>\r\n\t\t<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" ";
$html .= "width=\"16%\" class=\"navbaroff\" align=\"center\"><a class=\"ttd\" ";
if ($usesession == "yes"{$html .= "?" . session_name() . "=". session_id() . "";}
$html .= "\">Browse</a></td>";

As for changing _top to the framename -
The target frame name is set by Joommla, and I am not sure where to find the name for it as the software has set it. I did the "Home" link as a wrapper around your software the URL is http://websitesbygeorge.net/links/

In your case, the name of the desired frame is "iframe"

So... in theory, changing "_top" to "iframe" *should* give the desired results.

And just to be clear.. you implied you deleted . . . .

$html .= "target=\"_top\" href=\"$gl[BasePath]/directory/";

You need the href= portion..

and I also neglected to mention.. BACKUP YOUR FILES PRIOR TO EDITING

Good advice on the back up. I never mentioned it, but the files are backed up.

This is how I changed the code as I understood you asking:
<?
// *******************************************************************
// themes/original/navbar.top.php
// *******************************************************************
$and = "?";
$html = "\r\n<!-- Start Top NavBar Table themes/original/navbar.top.php -->";
$html .= "\r\n<table cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"100%\" ";
$html .= "border=\"0\">\r\n<tr>\r\n\t<td nowrap=\"nowrap\">\r\n\t<table ";
$html .= "class=\"homebalkback\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" ";
$html .= "width=\"100%\" border=\"1\">\r\n\t<tr>\r\n\t\t<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" ";
$html .= "width=\"16%\" class=\"navbaroff\" align=\"center\"><a class=\"ttd\" ";
$html .= "target=\"iframe\" href=\"$gl[BasePath]/directory/";
if ($usesession == "yes"{$html .= "?" . session_name() . "=". session_id() . "";}
$html .= "\">Browse</a></td>";

Every link in the whole page keeps the page inside the iframe in the top Navigation "Browse" works also
But the rest of the Top Navigation bar do not:

ie:
What's New What's Cool What's Popular Add A Site About

What I also did after... is that I went to the navbar.bottom.php (the links work excellent there)and found

$html .= "href=\"$gl[BasePath]/directory/";

Which I inserted as a copy in the top Nav bar

But with No different results:
<?
// *******************************************************************
// themes/original/navbar.top.php
// *******************************************************************
$and = "?";
$html = "\r\n<!-- Start Top NavBar Table themes/original/navbar.top.php -->";
$html .= "\r\n<table cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"100%\" ";
$html .= "border=\"0\">\r\n<tr>\r\n\t<td nowrap=\"nowrap\">\r\n\t<table ";
$html .= "class=\"homebalkback\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" ";
$html .= "width=\"100%\" border=\"1\">\r\n\t<tr>\r\n\t\t<td nowrap=\"nowrap\" ";
$html .= "width=\"16%\" class=\"navbaroff\" align=\"center\"><a class=\"ttd\" ";
$html .= "href=\"$gl[BasePath]/directory/";
if ($usesession == "yes"{$html .= "?" . session_name() . "=". session_id() . "";}
$html .= "\">Browse</a></td>";

It sounds like you haven't replaced all the "_top" with "iframe" The code you are including is for the Browse link..

You should of found a _top for each of the top nav buttons, possibly you missed a couple?

and disregard the quotes I just typed above.. search for _top and replace it with iframe Any text editor should have a search replace function these days, even Plain ol' notepad.