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julmado
03-16-2007, 03:04 AM
Greetings!

I am seriously considering using CSS instead of frames for many resons, and found quite a few fantastic templates for beginners such at myself at CSSLibrary.

For example these: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/layouts/item/css-left-frame-layout/

I am just wondering how, in effect, would CSS be able to replace frames?

I am unable to link from one CSS frame"to another with
target="target".

Is there a different tag for linking within CSS frames?

jscheuer1
03-16-2007, 03:57 AM
CSS can mimic the appearance of frames but, not their function. Javascript, iframes and/or Ajax would be required to do that.

julmado
03-17-2007, 11:39 PM
What I've done (tell me if this is crazy) is put iframes on top of the CSS frames.

One thing is that a strange is a certain CSS frame overlaps an iframe.

See the right part here (http://secure.webhostingcanada.org/~etcaeter/).

Everything loads nicely, but click on a link in the top menu.

A bit of text is clipped on the right.

Any idea how this can be avoided?