IFRAME silliness

[haakoo]

Steve,

Still don't understand what it is you want to explain here?
From what i've learned,the allowtransparency doesn't apply if the page that is loaded into the iframe has color applied
It must set to transparent through the bodytag or by adding css style for the body or leaving out color in the body tag.
Thus you cannot make this happen in xwd as you cannot approach the headtag.

for the links it doesn't work in Opera but does in IE 6,7,8,Safari4,Chrome and FF3

you forgot to give the iframe a name and id must be the same,
different browser use different approaches to call an iframe
by name or by id,use both for the iframe.

it must look like something this;

<iframe name="InlineFrame1" id="InlineFrame1"
 style="position:absolute;left:178px;top:111px;width:444px;height:377px;
z-index:1;" src="./blanko.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
 allowtransparency="true">Your browser does not support inline frames
 or is currently configured not to display inline frames.</iframe>

Hans

[steve.ledger]

you forgot to give the iframe a name,itmust look like this;

Hmm Hans, we're on different worlds I think.
There IS a name attribute. And the name I'd used was the problem as explained by John.
I'd given the iframe the name of 'window' and this causes some sort of conflict with Opera and FF3.
I since renamed the name attribute, and all is well.

As for transparent iframe background, have a look, it works 'as I intended'.
I never said I wanted the remote sites background to be transparent.
But watch out, once I need something fancier and better coded, I'm going to be asking for your help

Anyway, thanks Andrew, Hans and Ross for helping this thread come to a conclusion.

Kudos to John...

[haakoo]

The note about the pages you control was there for everybody.

Still the Iframe is white in IE, 6,7,8
Thought you wanted it to be transparent too,
But OK,this thread should be very useful for the rest of the members

Hans

[covoxer]

What other names would cause a similar problem?

I don't know. But I would suggest to always use unique identifiers. For example, add prefix "my" or "my_" to all your names.