Scrolling Frame Problem

[Geoff]

Hi,

I have a problem with stopping my 'mainbody' frame from scrolling. The html below works fine with everything except IE on a Mac. This is driving me mad. I've done it with other sites without problems but no matter what goes into the 'mainbody' frame, if it is bigger than the frame - it scrolls! I can't see what I've done wrong :(

Any help you can give would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Geoff


<frameset rows="*,460,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" frameborder="no" border="0">
<frame src="toppanel.htm" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
<frameset cols="*,750,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" frameborder="no" border="0">
<frame src="leftpanel.htm" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
<frame name="mainbody" src="flashcheck.htm" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
<frame src="rightpanel.htm" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
</frameset>
<frame src="bottompanel.htm" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
</frameset>

[PeOfEo]

Well if something is too big in it doesnt scroll then you have a problem dont you. I suggest doing a browkser and platform protection before users enter your site or getting something to track your user to see how many actually see this messed up version of your page.

[Geoff]

Something being too big isn't really the problem. I am using layers to display text which scroll using Javascript, so the frame scrolling isn't necessary.

Two sites of mine use this technique:

Anlisco Europe (http://www.anliscoeurope.com) - No problem with this one on Mac IE

Motorexpo 2003 (beta) (http://motorexpo.mouseup.co.uk) - This is a beta of a site due to go live next week. Navigate to 'Canary Wharf' and I have the same scripting but on Mac IE I get frame scrollbars which screw up the 'flow' of the site. Can't understand why they act differently :mad:

Geoff

[Geoff]

OK, I'm getting somewhere. The initial page loaded into the frame as specified in the 'frame' tag doesn't scroll - which is correct. Any subsequent pages loaded into the frame from links on the initial page end up scrolling ?!

Why doesn't the loaded page take on the attributes of the parent frame?

Any ideas?

Geoff

[Esmaeiluk]

to do this if using ms front page goto frame properties and on the bit where it says show scroll bar select Never and believe me it'll be gone for good