IFRAMES

[Exit12]

Hi

Is it possible to keep an iframe in the ame place when viewing the
webpage at different screen resolutions? I've just created a site using
IFRAMES and they move position when viewing in a different resolution...

Thanks

 

[Mitja]

Hi

Is it possible to keep an iframe in the ame place when viewing the
webpage at different screen resolutions?

Almost certainly. URL of your example?

BTW, iframes are usually a bad idea.

 

[Karl Core]

Hi

Is it possible to keep an iframe in the ame place when viewing the
webpage at different screen resolutions? I've just created a site using
IFRAMES and they move position when viewing in a different resolution...

An URL would help.

 

[Richard]

Hi

Is it possible to keep an iframe in the ame place when viewing the
webpage at different screen resolutions? I've just created a site using
IFRAMES and they move position when viewing in a different resolution...

Thanks

Frames suck and iframes even more.
What you should try to work on is a division using the position absolute
route.
Then instead of frames, you can call on a layer using z-index and keep the
positioning from wandering about.
Or make up pages for each of the probable screen resolutions.

 

[David Dorward]

Hi

Is it possible to keep an iframe in the ame place when viewing the
webpage at different screen resolutions?

What is the same place? The same distance from one edge? The same distance
from some other element? Distance in what sense? Pixels? Characters? etc
etc etc.

I'd suggest you forget about using frames in the first place:

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Problems_with_using_frames

.... and stop trying to make pages look that _same_ at different window sizes
(resolution is irrelevant, window size isn't):

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

Frames suck and iframes even more.

O my &deity; All this

Or make up pages for each of the probable screen resolutions.

and this too. Where does it all come from.

It's getting too much for me.

*plonk*

 

[Karl Core]

O my &deity; All this


and this too. Where does it all come from.

It's getting too much for me.

*plonk*

Yes. You should definitely killfile all those whose opinions with which you
disagree!

 

[Exit12]

What is the same place? The same distance from one edge? The same distance
from some other element? Distance in what sense? Pixels? Characters? etc
etc etc.

I'd suggest you forget about using frames in the first place:

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Problems_with_using_frames

... and stop trying to make pages look that _same_ at different window sizes
(resolution is irrelevant, window size isn't):

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

Sorry folks my mistake, I am using the div tag to set layers so I can
position certain items on my site. Problem is when the window is
resized, the items stay where they are.

How do I get a layer to re-position itself when the window is resized
or a different size?

I don;t have a link as it's not uploaded to webspace yet.

Thanks

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

Hi

Is it possible to keep an iframe in the ame place when viewing the
webpage at different screen resolutions?

Screen resolution is usually not relevant. What matters for the looks of
your pages is the size of the viewport of the browser they are shown in.
Resizing this viewport will effect the looks of your pages.

I've just created a site using
IFRAMES and they move position when viewing in a different resolution...

Well, yes. That is possibly correct and expected behaviour.
It might help if we could have a look at your page and see the phenomena
itself.

While you're at it, google for 'liquid design' or ' fluid design'. You
might also want to check out the information at
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-CSS21-20020802/visuren.html>.

Just remember that there is no way you can create a pixel perfect design.
There is no way you know how the information in your pages is going to be
transfered to your visitor. Is s/he going to see it in a graphical UA? Or
perhaps s/he gets it in a text-only UA? Or s/he uses a screen reader? You
don't know. Even if your pages get shown in a graphical UA, there are many
of those with all various features (not all of them pleasant to a web
designer).

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

Yes. You should definitely killfile all those whose opinions with which
you disagree!

This is not about disagree or agree. This is about mister Richard giving
out unfunded, unargumented and partly just lame advise.

 

[Karl Core]

This is not about disagree or agree. This is about mister Richard giving
out unfunded, unargumented and partly just lame advise.

I think it is obvious that Richard's recommendation of making pages for each
screen resolution was sarcasm.
His argument that "Frames suck and iframes even more." is well founded and
well argued - if not by himself, definitely by others.

 

[David Dorward]

Exit12 wrote:

<snip>

Please trim irrelevent material from your quotes - especially sigs.

Sorry folks my mistake, I am using the div tag to set layers so I can
position certain items on my site. Problem is when the window is
resized, the items stay where they are.

How do I get a layer to re-position itself when the window is resized
or a different size?

You avoid specifying lengths in units which are not relative to the window
size.

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

I think it is obvious that Richard's recommendation of making pages for
each screen resolution was sarcasm.

Well, no. That was not obvious. At least to me it wasn't. Remember that it
can be hard to spot sarcasm, cynical remarkt, irony if corresponding
outside your native language.

His argument that "Frames suck and iframes even more." is well founded
and well argued - if not by himself, definitely by others.

It might be. But because he never ever refers to any of those arguments,
who's to know. Besides, how are iframes worse than frames?

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I think it is obvious that Richard's recommendation of making pages
for each screen resolution was sarcasm.

Having noted the quality of Richard's advice over the years, I really
doubt if it was sarcasm. ;-)

 

[Toby Inkster]

how are iframes worse than frames?

(Slightly) less well supported.

 

[Karl Core]

Having noted the quality of Richard's advice over the years, I really
doubt if it was sarcasm. ;-)

You're right. It was the optimist in me speaking.

 

[kchayka]

I think it is obvious that Richard's recommendation of making pages for
each screen resolution was sarcasm.

I think you haven't noticed that Richard's posts in this group are
generally full of ghastly advice. I'd be much more inclined to think he
was dead serious when he made the suggestion.

 

[Richard]

I think you haven't noticed that Richard's posts in this group are
generally full of ghastly advice. I'd be much more inclined to think he
was dead serious when he made the suggestion.

Of course I'm dead serious about it.
After all, just how many different combinations of screen resolutions can
there be?
By the time you wrote out a page for each one, you'd have run out web space.

It''s bad advice from me because some witch hunters have hounded me over the
years.
But if Toby, or Brucie, or somebody else says the same thing, then it's good
advice.

 

[Richard]

Exit12 wrote:

Sorry folks my mistake, I am using the div tag to set layers so I can
position certain items on my site. Problem is when the window is
resized, the items stay where they are.

How do I get a layer to re-position itself when the window is resized
or a different size?

I don;t have a link as it's not uploaded to webspace yet.

Thanks

AS DD suggested, use inches or mm instead of pixels.
Then it does not matter what the resolution is.
Unless you want the division in the center of the screen at all times, for
example.
You can do that with javascript but the user can turn off javascript.
To get around that, do it in php.
Or, you can just set the page to 800x600 and forget about it.

 

[rf]

Richard wrote:>

Of course I'm dead serious about it.
After all, just how many different combinations of screen resolutions can
there be?

Screen relolution has absolutely nothing to do with the matter. It is
browser window size that matters.

Lets see. My primary screen is 1600 x 1280 (lets ignore the other two
screens for the moment). So a window can be that big. The minimum width for
a browser window is, on my system is 100 pixels. (we can safely ignore the Y
direction, that is taken care of by the scroll bar).

So, we have 1500 possible windows widths. That means 1500 web pages have to
be created.

By the time you wrote out a page for each one, you'd have run out web space.

Indeed.


It''s bad advice from me because some witch hunters have hounded me over the

ROFL.

But if Toby, or Brucie, or somebody else says the same thing, then it's good
advice.

Toby or brucie or anybody else would not say the same thing. All of then
would say anysizedesign.