Overlapping HTML-Frames

[ZedEnter]

Hi -

Environment: IE 5.x, up-to-date mozilla engines

<frameset name='main' rows='53,*' frameborder='1'>
....

By setting up two proper frames (the first of pixel-height 53px, the second uses the rest of the space) the first frame overlaps the second frame. This only happens in IE 5.x. It seems that all mozilla-driven browsers try to avoid overlapping frames.

Is there a way to prevent any overlapping of frames or is this one the many reasons not to use frames?

Greetz - Chris

 

[Foamcow]

Frames cannot overlap.
Can you clarify what you actually mean by saying that the frames overlap.

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[ZedEnter]

Well - they actually can.

Just imagine dragging the frame border manually over the other frame. Then one frame already overlaps the other.

Usually when a frameset is created with 2 frames in a row none of these frame should overlap each other. But this just happens in IE 5.x

I wish this would be always the case:

Frames cannot overlap.

Greetz Chris.

 

[Foamcow]

I must say I have never seen that problem.
Then again, I don't use frames much.

One site I look after uses frames, and the client uses IE 5. They have NEVER mentioned the problem and I am sure they would if it happened to them!

Is it an IE 5 bug? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by "overlapping"?.

You have a frameset with 2 frames next to each other.
They are resizable.
When you drag frame 1 towards frame 2, it overlaps frame 2?

Could you post a screenshot? I'm interested in seeing this.

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[chessbot]

Wouldn't changing the borders just result in expanding one, and shrinking another?

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[Foamcow]

That's what I thought. Hence my curiosity.

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