iframe makes things disappear

I've used an iframe within a frame in my webpage. However it makes a table
along the bottom of the page dissappear entirely.
I think it is getting rid of everything underneath it.

This is the code I've used.


<iframe src="news.htm" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"><iframe>

How do i fix this?

I think you need to set the iFrame height in pixels (e.g. 2000). However,
you can then get browser scrolling problems, and if you load subsequent
documents into the iFrame you may not see the top of the new document, so
you need to add onload="scrollTo(0,0)" in the body tag of each document
being loaded into the iFrame, then it all works just fine.

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"mashey" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I've used an iframe within a frame in my webpage. However it makes a table
along the bottom of the page dissappear entirely.
I think it is getting rid of everything underneath it.

This is the code I've used.


iframe src="news.htm" width="100%" height="100%"
frameborder="0"><iframe

How do i fix this?

You haven't properly closed your <iframe> tag, so the browser that
everything beneath it is still part of the iframe. Think of tags as
bookends. There are some exceptions, like the <img> and <br> tags, but for
the most part, tags sit on either side of their content.

Your code:
<iframe src="news.htm" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"><iframe>

Should be:
<iframe src="news.htm" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Look for the slash (/) in the closing <iframe> tag. That's what makes
all the difference.

<iframe ... [attributes]>
.... content
</iframe>


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net