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stmasi
05-27-2003, 04:10 PM
Check this out...
home.bendcable.com/theallensplace
It should look something like this:
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| contentcontentcont | Section A
| contentcontentcont |
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| contentcontentcont | Section B
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| contentcontentcont | Section C
| contentcontentcont |
| contentcontentcont |
| contentcontentcont |
| contentcontentcont |
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| contentcontentcont | Section D
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I'm moving from table-formatted pages to using CSS and I just can't seem to figure this stuff out.
Sections A, B, and D are set sizes and I'd like to set Section C to occupy 100% of whatever height remains on the page.
In addition, I'd like to be able to load external HTML files into Section C when links in Section B are clicked.
How in cyberspace do I accomplish this?
Thanx.
gil davis
05-27-2003, 04:48 PM
Probably should have posted in CSS section.<head>
<style>
.top {width: 300px; height: 100px; clear: right; border: 1pt solid black; overflow: hidden}
.mid {width: 300px; height: 50px; clear: right; border: 1pt solid blue; overflow: hidden}
.bot {width: 300px; height: 150px; clear: right; border: 1pt solid red; overflow: hidden}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="top">content</div>
<div class="mid">content</div>
<iframe src="rainforest.htm" name="if"></iframe>
<div class="bot">content</div>
</body>
stmasi
05-27-2003, 04:53 PM
Is that the only way?
I'll have to use an Iframe?
Thanx.
khaki
05-27-2003, 05:06 PM
hi stmasi....
i couldn't figure-out your link...
so i couldn't get a visual of what you were after...
but here is a site that offers multiple templates of varying CSS layouts.
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/boxes.html
it's still not easy (for me, anyway :rolleyes: )...
but it beats trying to figure it out on your own.
hopefully you can find a suitable layout style that matches what you are trying to do.
unfortunately, i still find CSS layout to be way too confusing...
even after playing around with the templates there :(
as far as your need to load external files into specific blocks:
i couldn't get it to work for me (it caused a perfectly positioned block to just re-plant itself at 0,0 (x,y).
i will no doubt be monitoring this thread to pick up info on how to get it all working.
have fun at the noodleincident (it's cool stuff.... even if i don't really understand half of whats going on :rolleyes: )
;) k
gil davis
05-27-2003, 05:18 PM
Originally posted by stmasi
I'll have to use an Iframe?It's the only HTML object that you can target with a link. Anything else would involve script.
I should have prefaced my example with applicable browsers. It should work in IE 5+ (I tested IE 5.5), NS 6+, and Mozilla.
stmasi
05-27-2003, 05:19 PM
That makes sense.
I'm using script right now to swap images in the top box.
I wonder how you'd do it for a page instead of just an image.
Thanx.
gil davis
05-27-2003, 05:25 PM
You change the IFRAME's location attribute, just like you'd change a FRAME.window.top.frames["if"].location.href = "newPage.htm"The reason I suggested it, was that you can use the target attribute of the <A> tag:<a href="newPage.htm" target="if">whatever</a>That's how I understood your original request.
Charles
05-27-2003, 05:27 PM
Originally posted by stmasi
I wonder how you'd do it for a page instead of just an image.You use an inline frame. (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html#edef-IFRAME)
Charles
05-27-2003, 05:32 PM
window.top.frames["if"].location.href = "newPage.htm"
can also be written as
window.top.frames.if.location.href = "newPage.htm"
However, both of them will fail a good bit of the time. If you are doing some kind of onmouseover thing, then you will also have to provide a real link as back up.
<a href="newPage.htm" target="if" onmouseover="window.top.frames.if.location.href = this.href">whatever</a>