iframe problem in firefox

[Valued Customer]

Hello,

I'm really at a loss here. I have the following index.html:

<div align="center">
<iframe src="left.htm" width="15%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="left" target="contents">
<iframe src="main.htm" width="85%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="main" scrolling = "no">
</iframe>
</div>

In left.htm, is code prett much for navigation. I'm using links like
this:

<A href="pages/FL000001.htm" target="main">

When using IE, everything works great. The user clicks on something
on the left and it appears in the correct target.

However when using FireFox there's two issues:

1. I want a 15/85 proportion of menu to main window on the screen.
When using FF, it gives an equal amount of space to each frame... in
spite of the dimensions I specified in the width properties above.

2. In FF, when a user clicks a link on the left, it doesn't open in
the target "main", it opens in a new window?!?!... I did NOT specify
target = "_new"; how can this happen?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[David Dorward]

Valued Customer wrote:

Odd name you have there...

<div align="center">
<iframe src="left.htm" width="15%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="left" target="contents">
<iframe src="main.htm" width="85%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="main" scrolling = "no">
</iframe>
</div>

Problems:

1. Your markup is invalid. You missed a </iframe>. The validator would have
told you that.

2. You seem to be trying to use iframes to duplicate the effects of the
better supported (normal) frames.

3. Frames are harmful.
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Problems_with_using_frames

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[Chaddy2222]

Valued Customer wrote:

Hello,

I'm really at a loss here. I have the following index.html:

<div align="center">
<iframe src="left.htm" width="15%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="left" target="contents">
<iframe src="main.htm" width="85%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="main" scrolling = "no">
</iframe>
</div>

In left.htm, is code prett much for navigation. I'm using links like
this:

<A href="pages/FL000001.htm" target="main">

When using IE, everything works great. The user clicks on something
on the left and it appears in the correct target.

However when using FireFox there's two issues:

1. I want a 15/85 proportion of menu to main window on the screen.
When using FF, it gives an equal amount of space to each frame... in
spite of the dimensions I specified in the width properties above.

2. In FF, when a user clicks a link on the left, it doesn't open in
the target "main", it opens in a new window?!?!... I did NOT specify
target = "_new"; how can this happen?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

My article on Useing Frames can be found at:
http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips1.html
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

[Jake]

In message <11*********************@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
Chaddy2222 <ro***********@yahoo.com.au> writes

Valued Customer wrote:

Hello,

I'm really at a loss here. I have the following index.html:

<div align="center">
<iframe src="left.htm" width="15%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="left" target="contents">
<iframe src="main.htm" width="85%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="main" scrolling = "no">
</iframe>
</div>

In left.htm, is code prett much for navigation. I'm using links like
this:

<A href="pages/FL000001.htm" target="main">

When using IE, everything works great. The user clicks on something
on the left and it appears in the correct target.

However when using FireFox there's two issues:

1. I want a 15/85 proportion of menu to main window on the screen.
When using FF, it gives an equal amount of space to each frame... in
spite of the dimensions I specified in the width properties above.

2. In FF, when a user clicks a link on the left, it doesn't open in
the target "main", it opens in a new window?!?!... I did NOT specify
target = "_new"; how can this happen?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

My article on Useing Frames can be found at:
http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips1.html

Can I suggest you:

(a) read up on how to design a frames-based site,
(b) get some experience by coding one,
(c) re-write http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips1.html in the light
of what you learn.

Regards.
--
Jake (ja**@gododdin.demon.co.uk -- just a 'spam trap' mail address)

[Valued Customer]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:34:30 +0000, Jake <ja**@gododdin.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

Can I suggest you:

(a) read up on how to design a frames-based site,
Don't want to use the frameset tag... perfectly familiar with it
though
(b) get some experience by coding one,

Trying to... but wasting too much time reading tearse replies from
wise guys like you who spend more energy flaming folks than being even
remotely helpful. It's easy to be a tough guy from behind the
anonymity of a keyboard, but remember a little bit of courtesy goes a
long way... especially since you were a rookie once.

Amazing... all that effort and you didn't address my questions. Yes I
missed a closing </iframe>. But that didn't fix any of the problems
with using FireFox.

[Steve Pugh]

Valued Customer wrote:

I'm really at a loss here. I have the following index.html:

<div align="center">
<iframe src="left.htm" width="15%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="left" target="contents">
<iframe src="main.htm" width="85%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="main" scrolling = "no">
For accessibility, giving meaningful names to the iframes would help.
Left and Main are not meaningful.
</iframe>
</div>
Presumably you also have some fallback content in the real page?
In left.htm, is code prett much for navigation. I'm using links like
this:

<A href="pages/FL000001.htm" target="main">

When using IE, everything works great. The user clicks on something
on the left and it appears in the correct target.

However when using FireFox there's two issues:

1. I want a 15/85 proportion of menu to main window on the screen.
When using FF, it gives an equal amount of space to each frame... in
spite of the dimensions I specified in the width properties above.
When I use the code above (plus the missing </iframe>) I get one frame
at 15% width and one at 85% width. That's in Firefox 1.0.7 with a
doctype that triggers standards mode. Which version of FF are you using
and which display mode does your doctype trigger?

The two iframes are displayed one above the other, as one would expect
from the code you gave. To get them to display side by side requires
some CSS. (a simple float: left on the first iframe does the trick in
my basic test).

As you haven't provided a URL we can't see your CSS and the rest of
your HTML so we can't even begin to guess what you've done wrong.
2. In FF, when a user clicks a link on the left, it doesn't open in
the target "main", it opens in a new window?!?!...
I can't be bothered to create content pages as well as a sample
frameset. Post the URL so we can see the actual problem in all its
details.
I did NOT specify target = "_new"; how can this happen?

I think you mean target="_blank", target="_new" is not allowed as per
the HTML spec.

Steve

[Steve Pugh]

Valued Customer wrote:

I'm really at a loss here. I have the following index.html:

<div align="center">
<iframe src="left.htm" width="15%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="left" target="contents">
<iframe src="main.htm" width="85%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
name="main" scrolling = "no">
For accessibility, giving meaningful names to the iframes would help.
Left and Main are not meaningful.
</iframe>
</div>
Presumably you also have some fallback content in the real page?
In left.htm, is code prett much for navigation. I'm using links like
this:

<A href="pages/FL000001.htm" target="main">

When using IE, everything works great. The user clicks on something
on the left and it appears in the correct target.

However when using FireFox there's two issues:

1. I want a 15/85 proportion of menu to main window on the screen.
When using FF, it gives an equal amount of space to each frame... in
spite of the dimensions I specified in the width properties above.
When I use the code above (plus the missing </iframe>) I get one frame
at 15% width and one at 85% width. That's in Firefox 1.0.7 with a
doctype that triggers standards mode. Which version of FF are you using
and which display mode does your doctype trigger?

The two iframes are displayed one above the other, as one would expect
from the code you gave. To get them to display side by side requires
some CSS. (a simple float: left on the first iframe does the trick in
my basic test).

As you haven't provided a URL we can't see your CSS and the rest of
your HTML so we can't even begin to guess what you've done wrong.
2. In FF, when a user clicks a link on the left, it doesn't open in
the target "main", it opens in a new window?!?!...
I can't be bothered to create content pages as well as a sample
frameset. Post the URL so we can see the actual problem in all its
details.
I did NOT specify target = "_new"; how can this happen?

I think you mean target="_blank", target="_new" is not allowed as per
the HTML spec.

Steve