using an inline frame in a form

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waskelton4
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using an inline frame in a form

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Hey group..

got a question..

i want to create a better option than a multi-select box using check boxes and <iframe>..

basically.. and iframe with a table containing the selections and a checkbox for each item.. my question..

will this data pass to the next page?
if not.. is there anyway i can get it to pass?

my buddy seems to think it's a totally different page and therefore won't pass..
i just wanted to get a second, third... opinion :)

let me know what you think..

many thanks..
will
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Post by cybaf »

it is possible to pass the variables via parent.forms.formname etc, but I wouldn't recommend it since <iframe> is not a standard, and you could get problems for users of other browsers than IE...

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Post by m3rajk »

actually iframe is supported on mozilla, opera, netscape 6+


it was actually adopted if i'm not mistaken. i know it was an ie creation, but some of them were found to be useful enough to be adopted into w3c. i think that's one of them
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Post by waskelton4 »

cool.. thanks for the reply..

this particular situation is actually for a very small intranet that we'll have browser control over ( :twisted: mwuhahahaha) so i think it'll fly here..

i'll give it a try

thanks again
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Post by cybaf »

m3rajk:

oops... my bad. just that the IE-invention-radar was turned on and sounded an alarm...:)

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present ... tml#h-16.5 backs up what you were saying.
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Post by m3rajk »

yeah. i knowwhat you mean. most of what m$ does for ie has no real added value (marquees) and don't get adopets, or are m$ os usefulness only/primarily (some of the <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> they did with jscript (what they call their proprietary knock off of javascript they support instead of javascript)

i refused to use iframes for a while because they were ie only. once i went and found mozilla does them i looked to see if the orld went mad and found that. so i figured it's ok touse them... specially since i had a use in something i was starting to make then that a frame would be helpful and that got around putting the entire page in a frame
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