andy206uk — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:55:28 +0000

Also... The IE team seem to be keen to make the next release of IE more in line with what users want and that will mean making it standards compliant, so they may well get rid of proprietry code like the css scrollbar colouring, marquee etc etc.

Microsoft know that they're going to loose out if people keep moving to these new browsers so they WILL give people what they want, design for standards-compliance now and you won't have to redesign in the future.

mandyfan — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:24:27 +0000

ok its fixed now...i just set a background image....it kind of ruins the 'mandy rocks' part of the layout but oh well...i'll try to make the next layout better.

now i have to fix all the pages. yay.

mandyfan — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:57:38 +0000

i set the background color to #ff9999

still shows up as white!

urggghhhh i am so frustrated.

brady.k — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:45:20 +0000

Transparent isnt supported across the board

And just for your knowledge...IE is the major browser...but there are others, and their numbers are growing. Mozilla/Firefox is on the rise, Opera has been around for awhile, Netscape is still used, AOL, etc etc. IE is most definitely not the browser of choice, and you shouldn't ignore your other users as well

Plus, most people find the scrollbars annoying if the colors change

mandyfan — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:59:53 +0000

okay i tried both ways...still doesn't work.

its okay though i've decided all i'll do is set the iframe bg color to the main layout color. no biggie...but thanks for all help anyway!

mandyfan — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:32:42 +0000

thank you soo much....i'll try that now.

so what you're saying is that instead of writing out all my css in the page, i should make an external .css file?

i'll try both ways, thanks.

KarenArt — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:24:05 +0000

I'm not sure what you have but in your css have

iframe.CLASS {
  background-color: #COLOR CODE;
  Any other css;
}

I've haven't used iframes for awhile so I'm not sure what the problem might be for you trying to set the background color.

Oops... just realized something....

Quote: n the external file (main.html), yes I did put background: transparent for the iframe.

What you want to do is give your iframe a class for css styling and set the background color in an external css file. You can also do the css inline, but I'd suggest keeping everything external.
I like to have inline styles on my php pages where I need to change a height, width, etc. for an element.

mandyfan — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:14:36 +0000

In the external file (main.html), yes I did put background: transparent for the iframe. Am I supposed to do that in the iframe file as well? But where? in the section?

Sorry if what I said is kinda confusing, I'm very new to html.

KarenArt — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:29:05 +0000

Quote: And the reason I didn't set the background color is because I want it to be transparent so the layout shows through.

Did you use background-color:transparent?

mandyfan — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:29:37 +0000

But not a lot of people use those browsers....most people using windows use IE.

And the reason I didn't set the background color is because I want it to be transparent so the layout shows through. This works fine in Safari, but not in IE.