Posted by John Hosking on 05/11/07 02:42

betty.noir@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi; I'm working on a frameset site for a class final project and I've
> got two fairly big problems

You mean besides the one you already mentioned

> : the first is that there does not seem to
> be any ww3-valid way to make the ugly gray frame-lines vanish.

Have you tried with the frameborder="0" moved to the <frame> element
where it belongs?

Also, the framespacing attribute is deprecated for XHTML 1.0, so if you
want one, you'll have to drop the other (or stop worrying about
conformance). I don't know what your course requirements are, but maybe
(unlikely though it is) IE is messed up from invalid coding. "Border"
doesn't seem to be valid for frames either, but don't quote me on that
one; I just haven't found it in my hurried dash through the W3C specs.
Caveat: I last touched frames in the previous millenium, and didn't
exactly enjoy them much back then, either.

>
> The bigger deal is that one of my frames is sort of intermittently
> unreactive only in ie6. The design is such that I have a nav frame and
> a content frame on a site displaying art pieces as images. When I
> navigate to text-only pagges, they display with no problem in my
> "main" content slot. However, NONE of the image pages will appear in
> that slot. Even when I view the source of that frame only, the code is
> all still there and all correct, and the background styles itself
> according to my css rules, but neither the text or images of the image
> html docs will appear only in IE6, only in that frame.

I understand & see this problem in my IE6 (after a couple of attempts
and re-reading your description twice), but can't explain it or help
you. Sorry.

> A co-worker strongly recommended I come to you.

Suggest to your boss that that co-worker be fired. ;-)

HTH, somehow. GL!
--
John

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