Frameset Size Problems

[acer34e]

I am building a framset that has four inner rows: a header, nav bar, main content area and footer. I have the main content area size specified as * right now so it auto expands, but depending on the size of the screen, the viewable area is too small. When I set a large number to it; it expands over the other frames.

I was wondering if there is a way to set the size of the main content area to a large number and to make the entire web browser scrollable. I don't mean within the frameset, but put a vertical scroll bar on the browser.

If anyone has a way I would appreciate it!

[kaled]

That doesn't sound like a website design that's going to be friendly to search engines. However, you could consider using <iframe> somewhere in the mix.

Kaled.

[acer34e]

The frameset is just for the shopping cart part of the site.

[acer34e]

One of the problems I was trying to address with this issue is that when I make the frameset, it will render correctly in Firefox, but not in IE. If I fix it for IE, it breaks in firefox. But the site not in a frameset works perfectly for both.

I tried using iframes and the same problems arose: margining was off. For example a perfectly positioned div in firefox would cause a 15px top margin in IE that couldn't be fixed.

I'm at wits end here and I was so excited because the iframes seemed like the best solution.