ASP in DIV/CSS question

[jpenn]

Hello All,

I am in the process of redesigning a web site I built for my company’s intranet a few years ago. I am not really a web designer so please forgive my ignorance.

The current site is designed to host about 50+ crystal reports and I use asp files to process the reports and display the results. I use two FRAMES in my site, one frame is a MENUFRAME which holds the links (navigation) for selecting the report and the MAINFRAME which is used to display the report. I use an anchor tag with the TARGET value set to the MAINFRAME to display the crystal report. Simple, and functional, but I want to move away from frames.

Can I do the same with CSS? I have a SPRY menu built to select the report and want to target the asp page to display in a DIV tag. Can I do that?

Maybe I can use a server side include?

I need some guidance and reference to a web site.

Thanks in advance!

Jim

[curtiss]

First of all, CSS is used to control the design of a page. It does not control any content, at all.

Now, moving onto your question. You can certainly use ASP to do what you want, but it's not quite as easy as you would think.

As far as I know, you can't use ASP code within your include statements, so you would have to search for some ASP code to retrieve the information from the reports, then print it out on the screen.

Whereas, with PHP, you would simply do something like:

PHP Code:

include('report_'.$_GET['report'].'.txt'); 


You have to be a little more creative with ASP. As I said, you'll have to find some code that can read the information from a file into a variable. Then, you can use the Response.Write command to print that information out on the screen.

I'm not sure what format the crystal reports come in, so I don't know which code to point you toward, unfortunately.

[jpenn]

curtiss,

Thanks for setting me straight on CSS, I will continue to explorer other options it handle my navigation.

Cheers!

Jim