overlapping frames

[alicef]

I've designed a website using frames with images in one of the frames.
In Netscape 4.76, one of the frames is overlapping onto the images
in another frame. This problem does not occur in other browsers.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

URL is <sorry, no URLs>

thanks!

[edited by: tedster at 7:47 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2002]

[tedster]

Alicef, welcome to WebmasterWorld. Hope you find the place valuable - and don't worry about the edit to your post. Many of of our best memebers started out with an edit.

I invite you to read our Welcome Thread [webmasterworld.com], to learn about our forum's tools and rules. There are a lot of useful things here (like the indispensable site search [searchengineworld.com] at the top of each page)

Now, on to your question. I don't think you're talking about HTML frames - at least I didn't see any frames on the page you listed. (By the way, you may list one page in your profile.) Your script uses the word "frames" to describe whether a certain div exists.

HTML frames absolutely cannot overlap, so you're talking about divs in this case. At any rate, I viewed the page in Netscape 4.76 with no overlap to any of the images.

Unfortunately, that's pretty complex code and it's not easy to just read and figure out. Have you zeroed in on where the problems seem to come from? What experiments have you tried? Is this your script, or is it a pre-written script that you're adapting - and if pre-written, can the author offer you support?

Yes, I'm throwing questions back at you. I think it's best if you figure it out, or at least narrow it down to a more specific question.

[alicef]

tedster,

yes, I am talking about html frames. Actually the url that
I pointed you to is the front page of the site, and you're
right that this frist page doesn't have any frames. But most of the
back pages of my site do - such as in the "administration" section.
That's where I'm having the problem.

In IE 5.5 and Netscape 6.0 and 4.79, my html frames look fine.
But in Nescape 4.76, the frames overlap, causing the images
on the border of one of the frames to be cropped.

Hopefully this was more specific.

Any ideas?

thanks so for your help!

[tedster]

Now I get you. It sounds like the frameset doesn't quite define enough room for NN4.76 to squeeze in all the frame content. Yes, I've run into this one myself.

NN4.76 uses a rather "fat" buffer of padding around the edges of a frame. Sometimes I've had to resort to browser sniffing and serve up a different page to accommodate it.

Two ways I can see for you to go here:

- either rewrite the frameset and define the problem frame with a slighlty larger size
- or rewrite the HTML that loads into the problem frame to move the cropped image a bit.

Maybe a little tweak in both places will do the trick best, without disrupting the whole layout.