Hi All

- My site is HTML with a flash navigation menu.
- All pages are loaded within an iFrame.

Now all iFrame pages as we know.. are a separate entity. Therefore when accessing externally for e.g. http://mysite.com/about.html -- it will only bring up THAT page itself.
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What i want to do is;

01) when accessing the page externally (for e.g. about.html) , it will load the site completely with my flash file (navigation menu). not only that (about.html page) itself.

02) other thing is... i also want to continue navigating with the iframe option on.


If anyone could provide help or solution it be much reallly appreciated!

thanks very much

have you tried using display: overflow in a div instead of iframes?

They look like an iframe but its just a div with a scrollbar meaning that the text would still be within the page, and your navigation along with everything else would be displayed.

I have to agree with santowhir, CSS is a much easier solution to this problem.

If for some reason you HAVE TO use iframes which i do not suggest the way i would solve it is use a little bit of simple php, but this would require a lot more work and its a way messier solution.

01) when accessing the page externally (for e.g. about.html) , it will load the site completely with my flash file (navigation menu). not only that (about.html page) itself.

Sorry, you can't really do that.

LadynRed i believe it is possible, though may not be simple HTML.. possibly related with JavaScripting?.

Not the way you described it, no.
Iframes are just not a good solution. A server-side include would be a better solution, or divs and css.

As for your Flash, I hope you are also including a TEXT version of your navigation.

that navigation menu can easily be done using Css (It will load faster) not Flash but... It's your design eric2007

I also would use php but I would get away from iframes all together!!!

I wouldn't use flash for navigation for 3 main reasons,

1. Most search engines woun't be able to pickup the link meaning it woun't find the other pages on your site.

2.Some people has flash disabled since its used frequently for ads, which mean well...

3. Text Readers woun't pickup flash text making it hard for our accessible friends.

I suggest you redo your navigation using good old css.

Sorry this isnt really related. but is there anyway someone could do if/else like statments for showing certain content depending on browser settings? so for instance if browser has flash disabled, show text/css menu if not show flash. i think u would use javscript. which wouldnt be gd if the user also has javascript disabled...

Also a gd idea if u are using a flash navigation would be to have the same navigation, but with only a . as the text between <a></a> this way search engione etc index and u get a fancy flash naviagtion



Dan

You could use a browser detection script, Dan, and there is a Flash detection 'kit' you can use too.

yeah that right!

I agree that if your design can be implemented without using iframes then you should resort to it.