Iframe

How to use it

[Adversity Sure Fire]

I am new to iframe can some one help me to set up a page having iframe and some static info.

[sweatynevets]

see here: [devguru.com...]

This page gives a description of how to use and some example code.

[Tomness]

Personaly, I think that iframes are unproffesional for the following reasons:

1.) Bookmarking a page may become an issue.
2.) If the user changes the text size, it may disrupt the desired front you want them to see.
3.) SEO will be effect, people will often find the page inside the frame, and not the index.
4.) Not everyones browser supports inline frames.
5.) Some users can be mentaly incapable of accepting the way it works - as one part of the page moves, and the rest doesn't.

Be really careful when using inline frames, and if possible, try not to use them all together.

What is it you're using them for, if you don't mind me asking?

[Adversity Sure Fire]

Thanks all for your help.

Yes, planning to use. I think google do not penalize for using iframes and its better to use iframes rather than frames..

I will get back on this soon for more help...

I hope you all will help me...

[aaronpaul]

Frames and iFrames are fairly differnt things. THey're not really interchangable as you imply. And, if you include page content in iframes, the search engines will NOT index that content as part of that page. It may index the iframe content as its own page (because it is a seperate page), but that's not usually what you want. For SEO, iframes would not be recommended in most cases.

[Tomness]

Yeah, they're not really a good idea.

Perhaps learning PHP and/or ASP(x) to bring pages together with ease.

I don't know any ASP, but will learn in good time.

However, php include codes are really really simple.

<? include('page.html');?>

Easy peasie - learning php opens up a lot of doors. ASP opens up even more, and looks great on the front end too. Then there's CSS to make it all come together.

Phwoar - better than an iframe and good for SEO.

;)

[mchristine]

Yes an iframe is a problem for referencing your site in google as it's not a part of the page.

What would be wrong about replacing it with a <div> and the "overflow" set to "auto"?

Any inconvenient to that?