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Using iframes....
What I'm trying to is get an IFRAME to change its content to a description of a link if the user hovers over that link.
Here's what I thought might work:
Code:
<A HREF="http://www.3dfiles.com" ONMOUSEOVER='desc.href="desc_3dfiles.txt"'>3d Files</A><BR>
<IFRAME SRC="hover_instruct.txt" NAME="desc" HEIGHT="80" WIDTH="500">
<p>Iframes not available<p>
</IFRAME>
But it doesn't http://dev.www.sharkyforums.forums.relay.cool/ Anybody out there a real hotshot web guru and can help me out?
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Why are you going with Iframes? Is this an absolute must? I personally don't think it's posible to do what you're asking, and have it work in 4.0 browsers. I would personally think it would be better to use layers instead of Iframes...as far as I remember, Netscape has 0 support for Iframes anyways.
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It looks like layers are only supported by Netscape? I was also reading about sneaky things you can do with a <DIV> block....
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EUREKA!!
Ok, I figured out to make it work. It works like
top.desc.location="new_desc.txt"
provided that your Iframe is named "desc" and you want to open "new_desc.txt" in it. Now I'm going to write a little CGI dude that dishes up the URL descriptions https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2005/06/5.gif
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iframes don't work on netscape if it's anything < 6 ... perhaps in your line of text for the people who don't have iframes, offer them a link to your text files? There are a LOT of people out there who still use something less than netscape 6, or an old version of IE...
Congrats on figuring out the hover tho!
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Screenshots please!
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