Using parent styles in an iframe

caspersgrin
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May 8th, 2008, 11:48 am

Hi,

In my ruthless efforts at separating process from presentation, I've come across a problem that baffles me. I'm using a frameset with just a left-hand and a right-hand frame. The document in the right-hand frame includes an iframe. The iframe is populated with the output from a servlet well after load time. The output of the servlet is simply a body text surrounded by html tags. I have also embeed the text is a <div class="resultsText">...</div> tag set specifying a style defined in the parent document. It seems that the div tag is being ignored (i.e., doesn't recognize the style). How can I get the iframe to recognize a style defined in the parent document?

Thanks,

Rob Tanner
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May 8th, 2008, 10:57 pm

well, the way you do things I really don't like frames with more frames inside them ... but anyway ... how about putting a <link> to your stylesheet inside the iframe code ... ?

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May 8th, 2008, 11:34 pm

righteous_trespasser wrote:

well, the way you do things I really don't like frames with more frames inside them ... but anyway ... how about putting a <link> to your stylesheet inside the iframe code ... ?

That's what I ended up doing, but it's not what I consider an elegant solution. I have somewhere around 3 dozen web applications for internal data management and I use about half a dozen styles for a consistent look and feel, and those are on a separate sheet that gets loaded in at run time. But every application also has a number of styles unique to a particular page and those I include on the page. And that's the easiest way for me to keep the pages organized. Doing a second separate style sheet loaded in with a <link> violates a schema that I really want to be consistent with. But I guess if the technology won't work any other way, I haven't got much of a choice.

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May 8th, 2008, 11:53 pm

that's the only way I could think of ... but then again, I never use frames or iframes for that matter ... I don't find them very elegant or at all ... so maybe someone else knows of another way ...

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May 9th, 2008, 3:05 pm

righteous_trespasser wrote:

that's the only way I could think of ... but then again, I never use frames or iframes for that matter ... I don't find them very elegant or at all ... so maybe someone else knows of another way ...

I do... drop frames and use PHP includes... do the same thing and you can make it look like frames too.. using the following CODES

design.css

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body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.container {
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  width: 800px;
}
.box1 {
  float: left;
  width: 200px;
  height: 700px;
  background-color: #999999;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}
.box2 {
  float: left;
  width: 600px;
  height: 700px;
  overflow: auto;
  background-color: #CECECE;
}
.box3 {
  width: 800px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: #666666;
}

index.php

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Site Preferences</title>
<link href="design.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="box1">
<?php
  include('dir/file.html');
?>
</div>
<div class="box2">
<?php
  include('dir/file2.html');
?>
</div>
<div class="box3">
<p>Copyright &copy; <a href="somesite.tld">some site</a> 2007-2008</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

file.html

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<div class="content">
<p>blahblahblah</p>
</div>

file2.html

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