[thelist] Moving IFRAME to CSS

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 11:53:38 CDT 2005


On 8/12/05, Norman Bunn <norman.bunn at craftedsolutions.com> wrote:
> I have a site I am working on that needs to embed a page from an
> external site in a page.  When I have done this in the past (it's been a
> while), I used frames or iframes.  My CSS experience has been limited to
> formatting text and I have never used positioning, so I would appreciate
> someone giving me a few pointers on how to embed a site this way with
> the most flexibility.

CSS styles what is in the document, it does not include one document
in another. Therefore you'd either need an IFRAME, or include the
content of the other page on the server, or use XHR/AJAX for that, but
there is no way to do it in CSS.

More:
http://wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=136

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