That's what the doctype

greg — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:49:00 +0000

That's what the doctype "FRAMESET" is for.

W3Schools doc type definitions and Usages shows framesets are not allowed in HTML and XHTML transitional and strict

(I believe there are "hacks" to get validated with strict and frames, but only for IE, and hacks are bad anyway.)

More info about the FRAMESET DTD (W3C)

Some more info about frames (W3C)

webwiz

decibel.places — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:36:03 +0000

webwiz wrote:

decibel.places wrote:

here is more info about iframe (iframe is not valid strict HTML 4.0 or XHTML)

Where did you get that idea from? Not even deprecated, as far as I am aware.

W3Schools states it here

Differences Between HTML and XHTML

The iframe element is not supported in HTML 4.1 Strict DTD and in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.

Glad you got that sorted,

webwiz — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:02:04 +0000

Glad you got that sorted, Grant.

I don't know about iFrame transparency, as I have never used iFrames. Try applying something like this CSS and see what happens:
iframe {filter: alpha(opacity=50); opacity: 0.5;}

decibel.places wrote:

here is more info about iframe (iframe is not valid strich HTML 4.0 or XHTML)

Where did you get that idea from? Not even deprecated, as far as I am aware.

Right ok i got them both is

GrantDouglas — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:25:20 +0000

Right ok i got them both is there anyway i can set an iframes transparency as a percentage eg. "" ???

Thanks man, i figured out

GrantDouglas — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:01:10 +0000

Thanks man, i figured out the iframe one right after i posted it i've used them many a times but my mind blanked haha.. felt so stupid ok il give the window one a shot and see how i get on.

An iframe should be treated

decibel.places — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:36:47 +0000

An iframe should be treated like any other window. If you want to load something into it, you need to give the iframe a name and then you can set iframename.src="somefile.xxx"

here is more info about iframe (iframe is not valid strich HTML 4.0 or XHTML)

you may want to consider creating a pseudo-window with a modal div, there are many ways including the prototype.js/window.js libraries and various lightbox and thickbox scripts - here is a simple one at Dynamic Drive