Posted by Brian Wakem on 09/22/06 21:37

wmanzo@yahoo.com wrote:

> richard wrote:
>> <wmanzo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1158939749.417563.233400@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>> >I have a really professional conspiracy movie site
>> > and I use tons of layers and an external scroll bar assembly.
>> > I would like to put the various sections into MS Iframes and
>> > in order to clean up the page but I find that the iframes interfere
>> > with the getting the mouse coords from the screen which is
>> > essential in moving the scroll bar around.
>> >
>> > My test html is given below. With the iframe hidden the mouse coords
>> > are obtainable. With the iframe visible things get buggy.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> A lot of people might want to see the work in action. So they can see
>> firsthand what problems might be.
>> If you have a working page, with the errors you're seeking to correct,
>> posting the link would help.
>> I did notice you're using inline "style" as opposed to an off page CSS
>> file or even defining in the "head".
>> As well as embedded javascript.
>>
>> The major problem with an iframe is, it is still a page by itself
>> somewhere else on your site.
>> What you need is a script that will reach out to that other page and work
>> with it.
>>
>> Also what's the point of having such a huge iframe and no scrolling?
>> How am I expected to see what else there is?
>
>
> When the Iframe is included on this sparse test page
> the readout of the mouse position crashes which
> means that the iframe is causing problems when it
> should have no effect on obtaining the mouse
> coords. If you look at my index_1.html page at
> mansueact.com you'll find all your answers__all the
> divs are visible and all the scripting is visible. I'd like
> to tidy up the page with Iframes where the scripts
> associated with the layers would be contained in
> the corresponding iframe. The page would then just
> be a group of Div tags with nested Iframe tags and I
> would then be moving around the Divs and calling
> functions in the Iframes. But the user wouldn't know this.
>
> I'm assuming that if I can get the mouse coords with an
> iframe visible then I can make the rest of the page work.
>
> The major problem is my page scroll bar and that the user
> cannot click and move it around the page when I use
> Iframes.


You have much bigger problems than that. Your site is completely screwed in
Konqueror.


> And, it is a very neat scroll bar.
>
> Also, I only use and code for MSIE.


You are joking, right?


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