visibility problem in iframe

[rohitchawla]

i have an iframe in which i put src and dont write http:// in begining
and i use visibility="hiddden" to hide it so it does not show the error of cannot find etc
when the whole page is loaded i modify the the src to the correct url and make it visibility="visible" and it works fine

but the problem is that it shows the iframe even when it is hidden and displays
cannot find the file i want to hide the iframe's contents before i make it visible and i cant use display:none as it changes the layout of the parent page

and ive checked display:none works perfectly except that when i make it display:inline it changes the layout of page

[jatscripts]

wrap the <iframe> within a <div>, then make the <div> (in)visible.
Jeroen

[rohitchawla]

thanks for the fast reply
but it didnt help me
i tried using a div to wrap my iframe and made its visibility hidden but it didnt work either
i made div with display:none and it did the same thing as when i did display:none to iframe
it changed the page's layout

[epots9]

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and ive checked display:none works perfectly except that when i make it display:inline it changes the layout of page

try display:block instead.

[rohitchawla]

well i want to hide the iframe from view only and want to show it only after i load the src into it
i cant use display:none as it removes the flow and after using display:inline or display:block the whole layout changes

is there a way in which i can hide the iframe without changing layout of page
i tried to wrap it in hidden div but it also gave the same problem and it also showed a scrollbar and i have scrolling="no" but when i make it visible again the scollbar is gone

i am new to javascript and dont know how to fix this problem
can u suggest me any other way to do this