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To Frame or Not to Frame 1

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danima

danima

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Jan 9, 2002
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Hi folks:

I had a designer provide me with a new design for our web site. What I like about the design is that the page does not scroll. However, to make it work the content portion needs to scroll. I really don't want to use frames for the site...but I'm not sure what else to do. I've had problems with layers (browser compatibility issues) in the past. I've never really used IFRAMES and I understand that Netscape 4.7 doesn't support them....

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Well....thanks for the help Einstein!
 
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I've never entered into the world of frames due to the complaints. I can and knwo how to use them but all I've really heard is bad things on them but a few instances. I'm sure they have there place but there are plenty of other ways to gain the effect they can provide to go with them.

I knwo for a fact some will disagree here as I've seen it before in this topic and if there are indeed compeling reasoning behind them being used then go with them. If you are at the beginning of a learning curve or such then like I said there may be better options avaiable A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
admin@onpntwebdesigns.com
 
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You can do it with a DIV:

<html><body>
<div style=&quot;width:300&quot;><fieldset>
<div style=&quot;width:300; height:100; overflow-y:scroll&quot;>

YOUR TEXT HERE

</div></fieldset></div></body></html>

Not sure about netscape 4.7 though. Clive
 
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I tried the div and it worked amazing in IE....not so good in Netscape! But it really looks perfect in IE....damn.

I'm going to work on a scrolling layer...now...I'll keep you posted. Thanks for that excellent post!
 
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