Integrating an Email or Information Form

[steve.ledger]

It would be fantastic for just a straight HTML/static site though!

And this is precisely it's purpose, which it does Xtremely well

[Coleen]

Well I got this work wonderfully with the form as an iFrame; however I have a little issue with the iframe that I can't seem to figure out...

This is my code for the iframe:

<a name="iFRAME" >
<iframe src="testform.htm" name="iframebooktour" frameborder="0"
scrolling="no" style="left: 165px; top: 300px; width: 623px; height: 388px;
position: absolute;"></iframe></a>

As you can see, I have set frameborder=0, but I still have "white space" around my iframe. ARGH! I've attached the two HTML Files as a zip - Can someone please help me with this? I know that's not really what this site is for, but if anyone knows why I am getting this and how to fix it, I would be extremely grateful!

Edit to post:
After "Googling" I found several references to margins. I did not set any margins on the iFrame and assumed (wrongly!) that no margins would be used. Once I changed my iFrame code to include: marginheight="0" marginwidth="0", it worked absolutely perfectly, smoothly and seamlessly!

Thanks so much to all who helped!

[BobInce]

There is no space around the iframe for me, though it is difficult to see what the page is intended to look like without the images so I'm not sure I'm seeing the problem.

There's a margin inside the frame of course; if that's what you're referring to you would need to remove the default margin of the HTML page inside the frame using eg. the CSS style 'body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }'.

[Also in future please use normal ZIP files - the one you posted uses non-standard ppmd compression which cannot be read by most compression software.]

[Coleen]

[Also in future please use normal ZIP files - the one you posted uses non-standard ppmd compression which cannot be read by most compression software.]

Eek - sorry! I (obviously) just did "zip" and didn't pay any attention to the type of zip (d'oh!)

As I said in my edit, I did find the problem - it was the magins! But it works beautifully now!

Thanks again,

[Soquili]

Bob I'm confused about your statement that Coleen's zip file used non-standard compression.

It opens correctly using PKZip and WinZip.

What application are you using?

[Egg Bramhill]

Bill, I tried opening it via selecting the downloaded file and right clicking Extract All. Here's the error message I got. Windows XP SP2.

[Odat]

It's a ZIP format file, but it isn't using one of the standard zip compression methods (like deflate). So it's probably down to individual installs as to wether the system supports it or not. (I know this is not OT, but I thought I'd mention it to clear up the mystery). It would seem that WinZip/PkZip (I didn't even know that was still around!) have newer compression methods. The compressed file format that WinXP uses doesn't have support for that new method. So only people with external zip tools installed would be able to access the file, would be my guess.

From the wonderful world of linux (probably not the best way to show this off, but):

 tmartin:dart:~> file JBZipHTMLfiles.zip 
JBZipHTMLfiles.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

tmartin:dart:~> unzip -t JBZipHTMLfiles.zip 
Archive:  JBZipHTMLfiles.zip
   skipping: bookatour.htm           unsupported compression method 98
   skipping: testform.htm            unsupported compression method 98
Caution:  zero files tested in JBZipHTMLfiles.zip.
2 files skipped because of unsupported compression or encoding. 

[Soquili]

Thanks Egg and Odat.

I do not think Microsoft has updated the zip support in Windows XP, other than a security update a year or two ago.

PKWare is still around and holds the patent/copyright for the zip file format. Winzip (as the original Niko and now Corel) are licensed by PKWare to use the format.

[WolfMoonHP]

I used the Zip "Extract All" in Vista, and it worked quite well.
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Will