multiple bgcolors in frames

Hello,

This "seemingly" obvious CSS inclusion is eluding me. I have a website
with a 20%/80% frameset (menu/body) and want a CSS to display a
different background color in each frame, say menu blue body white. Can
someone tell me the CSS element to use (if any) or point me in the right
direction? Many thanks.

jflechtner

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:00:12 GMT, jflechtner <none (AT) none (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

This "seemingly" obvious CSS inclusion is eluding me. I have a website
with a 20%/80% frameset (menu/body) and want a CSS to display a
different background color in each frame, say menu blue body white. Can
someone tell me the CSS element to use (if any) or point me in the right
direction? Many thanks.

jflechtner

After having read Brucies links, try googling for "css two column
layout" and "css templates". I can't think of one valid reason to ever
use frames, even for personal use.
-
Andy

"There would be a lot more civility in this world if people
didn't take that as an invitation to walk all over you"
- (Calvin and Hobbes) (this email addy is never checked...)

jflechtner wrote:

This "seemingly" obvious CSS inclusion is eluding me. I have a
website with a 20%/80% frameset (menu/body) and want a CSS to display a
different background color in each frame, say menu blue body white. Can
someone tell me the CSS element to use (if any) or point me in the right
direction? Many thanks.

In header of the menu document:
<style type="text/css">
html { background-color: blue; color: silver }
</style>

In header of the body document:
<style type="text/css">
html { background-color: white; color: black }
</style>


But of course, in this day and age, going for all-CSS instead of frames
is recommended. You can use server-side scripting or an HTML
preprocessor to replace the update-once, include-everywhere nature of
frames. David Dorward has good page on this at
<URL:http://dorward.me.uk/www/frames/>.