Frames bad, IFrames good?

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Frames bad, IFrames good?

Is text in an IFrame spidered properly?

androidtech

10:41 pm on Nov 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

I know that frames are a big no-no for proper SEO of a page, but what about IFrames? Just to clarify, I mean text in an IFrame, not an IFrame with a SRC attribute linked to an external document, especially not an external domain (of course).

My overall desire is to put text in an area which will support scrollbars and I am assuming that IFrames are the simplest way to do it. But I don't want the SE spiders to have trouble finding the text in the IFrame or penalizing my pages for it.

thx

layer8

11:27 pm on Nov 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

I would wait for someone else to respond but I have seen framed sites that work, they simply have java breakout scripts on the pages they point to.

They use the no frame tags for text...

Elijah

12:17 am on Nov 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Instead of iframes you could use a scrolling div.
Here's an example I threw together.


<html>
<head>
<title>Div Scrolling Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
div.scrolling {
 width:232px;
 height:255px;
 overflow: auto;
 }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="scrolling">
<p>This will scroll.</p><p>So will this.</p>
<p>See it's working!</p><p>Nice isn't it?</p>
<p>This will scroll.</p><p>This will scroll.</p>
<p>This will scroll.</p><p>This will scroll.</p>
<p>This will scroll.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Hope this helps you,Elijah Lofgren

androidtech

1:34 am on Nov 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Elijah,

Thanks. That does appear to be less cumbersome than working with IFrames.

thx

piskie

1:38 am on Nov 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks Elijah
That has just helped me as well.