Iframe issues

BarneyXP · #1 (**permalink**) 08-25-2005, 09:24 AM

First off I would like to say hi to every one out there I am new to this forum.

I have run into a problem with floating transparent iframes. I have a web application that I am currently developing it has an activex object that has streaming video on it the Camera takes CGI Commands to control where it should pan tilt and so forth. I am trying to place a Transparent IFRAME over top of the ActiveX object which has a transparent div in it so i can get the x and y coordinates of where the user clicked so the camera can go to that position. I was able to place the iframe over the control the problem is that i cant get it to be transparent i have tried allowtransparency=”true” with body {background-color:transparent;} in the iframe. So far no matter how many ideas I have found by using google they always never work it may be that currently IE does not support my idea for controlling the camera. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated thank you in advance for any assistance.

IFRAME NAME="ControlFrame" style="BORDER-RIGHT: black thin solid; BORDER-TOP: black thin solid; Z-INDEX: 101; BORDER-LEFT: black thin solid; WIDTH: 640px; BORDER-BOTTOM: black thin solid; POSITION: relative; TOP: -781px; HEIGHT: 480px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent;" SRC="Control.htm" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"

seccondbest · #2 (**permalink**) 09-07-2005, 03:57 AM

this is how i use Iframes.....

On the page that IS the I frame.....in the head of the html.....

<style type="text/css">

</style>
<style>

</style>
</head>

in the body :....

<body bgcolor="#FFFFC1">

and than what ever else that needs to go in the frame.

on the page where the Iframe needs to be the following..........

<td width="100%" height="436" colspan="5">
<iframe id="ifrm" name="ifrm" style="FILTER: chroma(color=#ff0000)" allowtransparency="true" src="first.htm" scrolling="auto"
width="100%" height="460" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true">
</iframe>
</td>

NOTE: i placed the Iframe in a table....

I hope this will help