cowshill

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think it will solve my issue. The problem is that what I want to put in the frame (or CSS pseudo frame) is not an html file but an actural URL such as "http://myblog.blogspot.com/". This is easy to put into a frame or an iframe, but I don't see how it can otherwise be included as a part of page with other divs on it. Server side includes won't handle it (at least as far as I've been able to figure out so far). - Cowshill

Hello all, As the title indicated I'm a retired American Unix Sys Admin, now living a life of ease in the Pennine dales. My work never involved web design so, although I'm fairly savvy on most things computer related, I'm about as newbie as they come on web design. I'm in process, for the fun of it, of learning CSS by migrating my personal site from frames to CSS. My first point of reference from my own bookshelf is the old O'Reilly HTML & XHMTL book which discusses CSS but not enough to really get into it. So, I've been looking on the web and came across this board, which looks great! I'll be looking into the tutorial sections of the board in hopes of finding some step-by-step info to modify the scatter-gun knowledge I've acquired so far. I'm looking forward to learning a lot here! - Cowshill

I'm moving my personal web site from a frame layout to CSS, primarily as a learning experience for me as I was quite happy with the way the frame layout functioned. I'm fairly satisfied with how it's going, but I have one problem I can't find a solution for. The frame layout was pretty standard: a title frame, a menu and other sub-frames down the left side, and the bulk of the page left for a frame filling the lower right of the page with whatever main content was selected from the menu. This worked fine as the main content frame was the default (*) size and would adjust to fill the browser window, regardless of window size. The problem is that the main content was often a separate URL - for a guestbook, a photo display app, or my blog on blogspot.com. I can create the main content section in CSS, and it works fine as long as I am using direct HTML into that div. However, the only way I have found to include the external URLs as an option in the main content area in CSS is to put them in an iframe, and it appears that an iframe must have a static size declared. So I no longer have the capability of this content resizing to fill any browser window size. So the question is: with CSS is there a way to include an external URL as part of the page being presented and also having the display of this URL dynamically adjust to the user's browser window size? Thanks for your help! - Cowshill