frameset alternatve using object

peterroots · Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

I have a problem or at least IE seems to!
I have read that W3C seems to think frames are a bad idea so I tried rewriting my website without them.
It all worked fine on my computer using konqueror, firefox and opera so I uploaded it to the web and the first person to access the site with IE told me the site was all messed up.
I have a menu down the left side and banner across the top both stored as html files and used as data in an object. Clicking on a menu item should open the relevant page but in IE the new page opens in the space occupied by the menu which is not what I see in firefox etc or what I want.
the relevant bit of my linked style sheet is

object.menu {position : fixed; left:0; bottom:0; width:75; height:400;}
object.banner {position : float; width:100%}
div.main {margin-left:65}

and the menu is brought in as


<object class="menu" data="menu.html"></object>

and correctly appears down the left side
inside the menu are lines like this

<tr><td height="50"><a href="dodoma.html" target="_parent">Where is Dodoma?</a></td></tr>

the main bit of the page is

<div class="main">
text of page here...
..
...
</div>

any idea why this may not work as expected?

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 868 Location: Biloxi, MS

I normally don't like to use or suggest this, but on your menu.html and between the head tags, insert <base target="_blank">

and see if that works for you.