FrontPage link thumbnail to pic and text?

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I want to be able to click on the thumbnail and its larger picture and the
corresponding text pop up in another page. I want the picture and text to
pop up in a frame with the picture to the left and the text to the right.
Keep in mind that the picture and text will be different files. I just want
to link it, so when I click on the thumbnail, the frame will pop up, the left
side of the frame calls for the picture I just clicked on and the right side
of the frame calls for the corresponding text. Any help?
 
You will need to create a frameset page for each and every thumbnail,
where the frameset will load the image and relevant description file.
The thumbnails will link to the frameset. IMO, it will be much easier
to dispense with the frames and link to a single page which contains
both the image and description.
 
Another way, which I use, is to link each thumbnail to a single page, say
picture.html. When linking, parameters are passed to picture.html, being the
name of the .jpg file and the text.
For example
<a href = "#" onclick =
"picture.html?picture=images/display/trevor.jpg&caption=Trevor")

picture.html then uses JS to extract the parameters and place the picture
and caption on the page.

Perhaps JS solutions available on the net do this with less user coding
 
That's OK for a picture and short caption (3 or 4 words), but a
details page sounds like an essay which will not fit snugly into a
hyperlink querystring :)
I use a database application for this sort of thing.
 
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