IE6 iFrame question

**t_vgemert** · Oct 6, 2003 03:06

Hi,

(posted this first in HTML / XHTML but I think this is a more appropriate place for these posts)
I built a website wich uses an iFrame to display content. This works very nicely on Mozilla (1.4) and opera (7.11) but when I view the page in IE6 it doesn't show the iFrame? I think this is because it is somewhere under another element in the page, but I can't figure it out. Does anybody know what's the issue here?

URL:
http://www.trimedia.nl/devel0p/kero_tijdelijk

Thanks in advance,

Tom

**greg.harvey** · Oct 6, 2003 03:47

Ok. By a process of elimination I can tell you that it's a combination of using height="100%" as an iFrame parameter and nesting the iFrame in a table. I think you've found a nice new bug there in IE6! Lose the height="100%" and it works... odd!

G

Edit:

I think you'll find that a height parameter there isn't actually valid W3C XHTML, but I'm not sure on that. I know that table heights aren't valid parameters but everyone uses them anyway.

**langedav** · Oct 6, 2003 05:40

I see no problems placing iframes within tables. Try this code for instance, works great in IE6.

In this case the position of the FloatingContent layer is put in a stylesheet and can look a little like this:

#FloatingContent {
position:absolute;
left: 200px;
top: 96px;
width: 598px;
height: 435px;
z-index: 1;
background-image: url();

However the layer is not called a Floating layer just for fun but it realy is a floating layer and can be set anywhere on the page using the stylesheet and you don't even need no tables anymore. images/smilies/FRlol.gif

Hopelijk heb je hier iets aan Tom.