index page with FRAMES dont work in IE on PC

Mads · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

I am a graphic designer trying to make a very simple website using html in dreamveawer, i am not a webdesigner so im a bit of a code-dummy.
I am making an index-page with 3 rows and a drop-down menu in the upper row. the page works fine in firefox (mac and pc), safari (mac), and my own IE for mac.
but on a pc in IE nothing shows up, if i load the pages supposed to be in the frames seperately they look fine, so there must be a problem in my codes for the frameset, my index-file. Or does frames just not work in IE anymore!?
Please copy my codes and take out the errors if posibble. Thanks!

This is my website, only drop-down-links Ole poulsen, widex and MorsÃ¸ works, the rest are blank so far. and using IE+PC unfortunately creates a blank page:
http://madsjakobpoulsen.dk/test/

This is the codes from my index-page / the frameset:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>MADS JAKOB POULSEN™ Graphic design etc.</title>
<link rel='icon' type='image/png'href='favicon.ico' />
</head>

<frameset rows="65,580,30" cols="*" framespacing="5" frameborder="no" border="5" bordercolor="#FFFFFF">
<frame src="top.html" name="topFrame" scrolling="No" noresize="noresize" id="topFrame" title="topFrame" />
<frame src="main.html" name="mainFrame" id="mainFrame" title="mainFrame" />
<frame src="bottom.html" name="bottomFrame" scrolling="No" noresize="noresize" id="bottomFrame" title="bottomFrame" />
</frameset>
<noframes><body>
</body>
</noframes></html>[/b]

Corey Bryant · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:35 am

Try something more like

Mads · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

Hey. Thank you for the quick reply.
However it doesn't work with the new codes either.
Tried adding the sources of each frame like you can see further down.
The frames seem to be working fine but both before and now, the problem is that the pages that should be loadend into top, main and bottom frames doesn't show at all. am i defining the source wrong, or!? i dont know.. -still works perfectly in firefox..

<frameset rows="65,*,30">
<frame src="top.html" name="topFrame" scrolling="no" noresize="noresize" />
<frame src="main.html" name="mainFrame" scrolling="no" noresize="noresize" />
<frame src="bottom.html" name="bottomFrame" scrolling="no" noresize="noresize" target="mainFrame" />
<noframes>
<body>

<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>

</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>

</html>

Corey Bryant · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:31 pm

The same code works for me here using three simple HTML files. I created a copy of your source code using your HTML files and it does not work.

It seems to be something in one (or more) of your HTML files. If you create a simple HTML frame / file with just a few words in each and create the same, does that seem to work? If so, it seems that something might be wrong with your other code.

International Web Developers Network might be able to notice. I saw an error or two in the top frame but nothing that I would say an issue that would cause this.

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Mads · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

Hey.
I did what you said and started over (again) and re-builded it step by step, and yes it worked with other html-documents. So the problem couldn't be the frames..then i remade my website checking every step on my 1990-laptop with explorer.
The error was in the css-file. without css.files it worked. So i tryed erasing the css-codes one by one.
the top of the css-code said:

html, body {
font-family : Verdana;
font-size : 10pt;
color : black;
position : relative;
margin : 0;

when taking out:

position : relative;

The whole thing works!
I dont know if it's worth anything for you guys or if i'm just a dummy, a releaved and happy one now, but that was the error.
Thank you for the replys Corey!

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:42 am

Glad it all worked out. I had tried it as well and knew it had to be something in there. Good luck with the site!

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