If I have an iframe on a page do i need to use the frames doctype thing or not. I know you do if you include a normal frame but I wasn't sure about this...

I am not sure but try transitional first and validate it, if it errors on the iframes use frameset

mmm, I'm not sure about that coz everytime I've tried to validate any of my pages it always says cnnot find page...

do you know why that would be?

You shouldn't need to use the frames doctype - the floating frame simply loads another page inside it.

If you wanted to use a frameset in the target page in the iframe, then yes you would need the frames doctype in the src page.

Hope this makes sense

heres a script which will create an iframe

Paste the below code where you wish the window to appear, and you're done! Be sure to change the width/height and src property of the mini window to your own:

<iframe name="cwindow" style="border:0px solid " width=150 height=150 src="doc.htm"></iframe>

Notice the "name=cwindow" attribute inside the above code....you'll need this if you wish to create a link outside the mini window that loads the target url inside the mini-window. For example:

<a href="minidoc.htm" target="cwindow">