<IFRAME> problem with text/background color in netscape

foo · Oct 2, 2003

the following code sets the background color to black, text color to
white then embeddes a rectanglar frame displaying the textfile
'foo.txt'. at first the frame appears to be merely a large black box, up
upon closer inspection (highlighting the text within the frame) the
problem simply appears to be that the text and background color are both
set to black, and thus the file merely appears not to have loaded.

can anyone tell me how to set the background and text colors for an
embedded frame?

thanks in advance

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>foo</TITLE></HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#FFFFFF">

foo<BR>

<IFRAME SRC="foo.txt" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="200" NAME="fooframe">
</IFRAME>

</BODY>
</HTML>

rf · Oct 2, 2003

foo said:
the following code sets the background color to black, text color to
white then embeddes a rectanglar frame displaying the textfile
'foo.txt'. at first the frame appears to be merely a large black box, up
upon closer inspection (highlighting the text within the frame) the
problem simply appears to be that the text and background color are both
set to black, and thus the file merely appears not to have loaded.

can anyone tell me how to set the background and text colors for an
embedded frame?

Do it in the HTML page that is in the iframe.

Cheers
Richard.

foo · Oct 2, 2003

rf said:
Do it in the HTML page that is in the iframe.

ah, there might be a problem there. the page in the frame is *not* an
html file, it is a plain ascii text file.

rf · Oct 2, 2003

foo said:
ah, there might be a problem there. the page in the frame is *not* an
html file, it is a plain ascii text file.

Well then you are out of luck, unless you want to jump through all sorts of
hoops to access the dom of that document that lives within the iframe and
set the relevant attributes manually with client side javascript which does
not even work for 15% of your viewers anyway.

iframe == different browser window.

Cheers
Richard.

Whitecrest · Oct 2, 2003

Well then you are out of luck, unless you want to jump through all sorts of
hoops to access the dom of that document that lives within the iframe and
set the relevant attributes manually with client side javascript which does
not even work for 15% of your viewers anyway.

iframe == different browser window.

Actually if you used server side script you could easily (with no
javascript) format a page then add the text from a file.

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