basic question about frames and forms 1

[RobBroekhuis]

I've not used frames so far in my web design. Today I decided I'd like to have my web surfers vote on one of two background designs (both of which are repeating jpg's). The only way I could think of getting the backgrounds side by side in a browser window was to use frames, so that's what I did. Each frame has a document with a different background, and a button at the bottom to vote. Only problem is, when you push the button, the "action=..." page loads into the frame, instead of replacing the whole frameset. I'm looking for one of two solutions:

1) A way to have the button action replace the frameset page, not just the frame page (preferably without using script).

or

2) A way to display the two alternate backgrounds on a page without using frames (would IFRAMEs work?)

Hoping to learn some new tricks here


Rob

 

[ChrisHirst]

IFrames would work or you could use CSS formatted <div>s




Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[RobBroekhuis]

I tried Iframes, and they have the same problem. I'll look into the DIVs. Thanks for responding.
Is there no way to make this work smoothly using the frames approach?


Rob

 

[ChrisHirst]

add target="_parent" to the form definition

<form name="formname" method="post" action="cheers.htm" target="_parent">

that would load the page into the browser window and replace the framset.



Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[RobBroekhuis]

Chris,
Thanks on both counts! I got it to work with CSS (I'd rather avoid frames anyway) but now I know how to do it framely, too


Rob

 

[mattygriff]

You could always have used tables of course - that would have been my preferred solution.

 

[RobBroekhuis]

I did use a table, combined with CSS. Plain HTML has no way of displaying a background image for a table, but CSS does.


Rob