Target specific TextFrame with a particular name

[Bedazzled532]

My Indesign file has few hundred pages.

On the master page I have created one text frame and named it as "myframe"

A paragraph style of "apage_no" is applied to this text frame. Currently it does not have any content exept the style of "apage_no" is applied.

apage_no style description

--------------------------------

Font: Adobe Arabic

Size: 14pts

Bullets and Numbering : Numbers with ^#

Alignment : Centre

I have unlocked the textframe ("myframe") on document pages.

Now I am running this script to add a hair space to this particular text frame ("myframe") using the following script. Its not giving any error but its not working either.

=== Script ===

myDoc = app.documents[0];
var txtFrame = myDoc.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
for(var i = 0 ; i < tf.length; i++)
{
if(txtFrame.name == "myframe")
{ txtFrame.insertionPoints[-1].contents = "hair space"; }
}

##i will use unicode of hairspace which I dont have handy

=== End ===

What am I missing ?

Thanks

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bedazzled532 , the first line of your for loop has the wrong variable name—tf isn’t defined. Try this

myDoc = app.documents[0];
var txtFrame = myDoc.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
for(var i = 0 ; i < txtFrame.length; i++){
    if(txtFrame[i].name == "myframe"){ 
        txtFrame[i].insertionPoints[-1].contents = SpecialCharacters.HAIR_SPACE; 
    }
}

EDIT: You also need to include the i count variable, should be txtFrame[i] inside the loop.

[Bedazzled532]

@rob day Thank you so much. It worked.