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Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 12-29-2000 03:08 Simple question with a simple (yet elusive!) answer.... How do you make a page bust out of a frame? tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
bunchapixels Neurotic (0) Inmate Newly admitted	posted 12-29-2000 03:34 frame killer? search in yahoo for that, and you will get myriad answers. something like this should work: if (window.top!=self) window.top.location = self.location (never tried this, of course! )
Wes Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX Insane since: May 2000	posted 12-29-2000 04:06 I use if (window != top) top.location.href = document.location; on my pages. Works great!
Babamba Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: my mother Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 12-29-2000 04:13 I tried to solve your problem, but It almost crashed my puter because I couldn't get it to only open up once. it kept opening and opening new windows. If you want a script that will work when a link is clicked, I can do that. lemme know if that's what you want. ~Babamba
butcher Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: New Jersey, USA Insane since: Oct 2000	posted 12-30-2000 03:05 I thought a conundrum was one of those things you use for safe sex.
BeeKay Bipolar (III) Inmate From: North Carolina mountains Insane since: Dec 2000	posted 12-30-2000 03:39 Close, but no cigar. Has it been a while or do you just not practice safe sex?
Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 12-30-2000 15:44 ok, I've got another... can you put a form on a layer so you can hide it if you want to? if so, can you put multiple forms on different layers on top of each other? tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
Slime Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 12-30-2000 19:51 Yup, that should work. Just put the forms on the layer the same way you would with regular text... <style type="text/css"> #myform {position:absolute; left:0; top:0;} </style> <div id="myform"> <form> . . . </form> </div>
Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 12-30-2000 23:36 I know that, Slime... ...but I'm talking about the form's INPUT fields. Won't they show thru like when you put a layer over a form? tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
mr.maX Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia Insane since: Sep 2000	posted 12-30-2000 23:43 Petskull, form elements will always be showed above everything and there isn't much that you can do to change it...
Slime Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 12-31-2000 01:08 Ooooh, right, never thought of that... Does setting the form's visibility to "hidden" not even work?
Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 12-31-2000 14:56 nope..... doesn't even PRETEND to work... not even an error... nothing.. they just refuse to hide.. stupid crack head layers... tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 12-31-2000 15:01 OH MY GOD, I'M SO STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!! of course it didn't work.... I set 'visiblity' to 'hidden' instead of 'visibIlity' to 'hidden'..... ok, now it works..... hehehe I shall go lather myself with cow's blood now and go skinny-dipping with some great white sharks... tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
Slime Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 12-31-2000 19:54 Hah, I've done that a few times myself... that and "resizeable" with the extra "e" that doesn't belong there.
Pugzly Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: 127.0.0.1 Insane since: Apr 2000	posted 01-03-2001 15:48 Hehehe...I tend to forget the "/" in closing SCRIPT tags. And then I wonder why the page doesn't show up......makes me feel like driving head first into a nail. Pat Richard Web weenie http://www.gurusnetwork.com ICQ 23113317
Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 01-03-2001 17:44 hehehe... here's another question... do we need <BODY></BODY> tags at all? can we just use style sheets for the background and stuff? (shamlessly trying to get rid of tripod's banners....) tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
Slime Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 01-03-2001 19:49 Heck, you don't even need <html> and </html> tags, the browser will figure it out. But put them there anyway, then you can say your pages are well-coded. OW! I'm typing with a paper cut on the tip of my middle finger...
Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 01-04-2001 17:05 what exactly is the style sheet function for the background? tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
Slime Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 01-04-2001 21:00 The simplest form is background: url(mybackground.jpg) #FFFFFF; the url() contains the background image url, and then the background color can be put after that, just in case. Put that whole thing inside the BODY {} style sheet. Interestingly, the background="" and bgcolor="" attributes of the body tag have actually been deprecated in HTML 4.0. You're not even supposed to use them. And yet, you have to, because NN doesn't seem to like the background thing, as far as I can tell.
Petskull Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 01-05-2001 16:26 tried that, didn't work... the browser war is getting on my nerves... tskull@techie.com"> "War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau ICQ: 67751342
Babamba Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: my mother Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 01-06-2001 02:16 my friend has evaded the tripod banners. email me if you still wanna know how he did it. please use the email so that no naughty activities corrupt the ozone site. ibabamba@hotmail.com ~Babamba
j.f.stahl Obsessive-Compulsive (I) Inmate From: St. Paul, MN Insane since: Jan 2001	posted 01-09-2001 00:12 getting back to the forms in layers question... you can also use absolute positioning to move the layer (and the contanied form) up and to the left off the visible screen. Then just slide the forms into place as needed.

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Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 12-29-2000 03:08

Simple question with a simple (yet elusive!) answer....

How do you make a page bust out of a frame?

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

bunchapixels
Neurotic (0) Inmate
Newly admitted

posted 12-29-2000 03:34

frame killer?
search in yahoo for that, and you will get myriad answers.
something like this should work:
if (window.top!=self) window.top.location = self.location
(never tried this, of course! )

Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted 12-29-2000 04:06

I use
if (window != top) top.location.href = document.location;
on my pages. Works great!

Babamba
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: my mother
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 12-29-2000 04:13

I tried to solve your problem, but It almost crashed my puter because I couldn't get it to only open up once. it kept opening and opening new windows. If you want a script that will work when a link is clicked, I can do that. lemme know if that's what you want.

~Babamba

butcher
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New Jersey, USA
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted 12-30-2000 03:05

I thought a conundrum was one of those things you use for safe sex.

BeeKay
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: North Carolina mountains
Insane since: Dec 2000

posted 12-30-2000 03:39

Close, but no cigar. Has it been a while or do you just not practice safe sex?

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 12-30-2000 15:44

ok, I've got another...

can you put a form on a layer so you can hide it if you want to?

if so, can you put multiple forms on different layers on top of each other?

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 12-30-2000 19:51

Yup, that should work. Just put the forms on the layer the same way you would with regular text...

<style type="text/css">
#myform {position:absolute; left:0; top:0;}
</style>

<div id="myform">
<form>
.
.
.
</form>
</div>

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 12-30-2000 23:36

I know that, Slime...

...but I'm talking about the form's INPUT fields. Won't they show thru like when you put a layer over a form?

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

mr.maX
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Belgrade, Serbia
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted 12-30-2000 23:43

Petskull, form elements will always be showed above everything and there isn't much that you can do to change it...

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 12-31-2000 01:08

Ooooh, right, never thought of that...

Does setting the form's visibility to "hidden" not even work?

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 12-31-2000 14:56

nope.....

doesn't even PRETEND to work... not even an error... nothing..

they just refuse to hide..

stupid crack head layers...

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 12-31-2000 15:01

OH MY GOD, I'M SO STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!

of course it didn't work.... I set 'visiblity' to 'hidden' instead of 'visibIlity' to 'hidden'.....

ok, now it works..... hehehe

I shall go lather myself with cow's blood now and go skinny-dipping with some great white sharks...

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 12-31-2000 19:54

Hah, I've done that a few times myself... that and "resizeable" with the extra "e" that doesn't belong there.

Pugzly
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: 127.0.0.1
Insane since: Apr 2000

posted 01-03-2001 15:48

Hehehe...I tend to forget the "/" in closing SCRIPT tags. And then I wonder why the page doesn't show up......makes me feel like driving head first into a nail.

Pat Richard
Web weenie
http://www.gurusnetwork.com
ICQ 23113317

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 01-03-2001 17:44

hehehe...

here's another question... do we need <BODY></BODY> tags at all?
can we just use style sheets for the background and stuff?

(shamlessly trying to get rid of tripod's banners....)

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 01-03-2001 19:49

Heck, you don't even need <html> and </html> tags, the browser will figure it out. But put them there anyway, then you can say your pages are well-coded. OW! I'm typing with a paper cut on the tip of my middle finger...

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 01-04-2001 17:05

what exactly is the style sheet function for the background?

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 01-04-2001 21:00

The simplest form is

background: url(mybackground.jpg) #FFFFFF;

the url() contains the background image url, and then the background color can be put after that, just in case. Put that whole thing inside the BODY {} style sheet.

Interestingly, the background="" and bgcolor="" attributes of the body tag have actually been *deprecated* in HTML 4.0. You're not even supposed to use them. And yet, you have to, because NN doesn't seem to like the background thing, as far as I can tell.

Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 01-05-2001 16:26

tried that, didn't work...

the browser war is getting on my nerves...

tskull@techie.com">
"War is a series of disasters which result in a winner." --Georges Clemenceau
ICQ: 67751342

Babamba
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: my mother
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 01-06-2001 02:16

my friend has evaded the tripod banners. email me if you still wanna know how he did it. please use the email so that no naughty activities corrupt the ozone site. ibabamba@hotmail.com

~Babamba

j.f.stahl
Obsessive-Compulsive (I) Inmate

From: St. Paul, MN
Insane since: Jan 2001

posted 01-09-2001 00:12

getting back to the forms in layers question... you can also use absolute positioning to move the layer (and the contanied form) up and to the left off the visible screen. Then just slide the forms into place as needed.