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[i_jr_i]

Hi, Im trying to do a layout with Photoshop,

Im trying to create a frame, where the words come out on the frame but i have an opaque background under the words.

Anyone have any clue what im talking about?

[Brian Chandler]

(Not necessarily in the original order)

Anyone have any clue what im talking about?

Not really. What's "im"?

Hi, Im trying to do a layout with Photoshop,

Ah. Photoshop, like all other image software, produces images. Not "layouts", at least in any html sense.

Im trying to create a frame, where the words come out on the frame but i have an opaque background under the words.

Huh? Are you trying to create an image with words on it? Then you probably want a Photoshop forum, since this has nothing to do with html. (And is a bad way to start making a web page, if that's what you're doing.)

[i_jr_i]

I'm using html and photoshop. What I want is an HTML frame BUT I want to have the page with the content come out on the photoshop layout I'm creating.

Now what I want is a Frame with HTML but not to cover the part on the layout which I'm going to use as the frame.

Is that a little bit more clear now?

[pandy]

Mot really. Are you perhaps talking about an IFRAME?

[Darin McGrew]

Frames don't work that way. The document displayed in the frame can specify a background image, and if that background image matches the rest of your layout, then it can look seemless.

But web pages aren't images, and image slicing is a particularly fragile way to design a web page.

[i_jr_i]

hmmm.. im pretty sure i have seen it.. but i really cannot remember the website, if i remember it, i'll be sure to post it..

[i_jr_i]

yes, im talking about IFrames But i want the background or the whole page to be a little opaque

[pandy]

Some browsers allow IFRAMEs to have a transparent background, but with frames it simply isn't possible. What would you see through the transparent frame? The frameset can't have a background so what's behind the frame?

A box with a scrollbar doesn't have to be a frame or an iframe though. A normal element can be made to show scrollbars with CSS. Maybe that's what you've seen?

[i_jr_i]

Some browsers allow IFRAMEs to have a transparent background, but with frames it simply isn't possible. What would you see through the transparent frame? The frameset can't have a background so what's behind the frame?

A box with a scrollbar doesn't have to be a frame or an iframe though. A normal element can be made to show scrollbars with CSS. Maybe that's what you've seen?

Finally I'm getting somewhere, lol.

Ok, Maybe thats what I have seen, but can that be made to be able to show a different page (with in the box made by the scroll bar?), I mean it doesn't necessarily have to be HTML, it can be CSS or PHP, Although I don't know have to handle either one, so if that is what it is, I'm looking for help where I can just copy and paste. (and Credit Will Be Given)

[pandy]

No. You need an iframe then. Iframes have transparent background by default in gecko browsers and can be made transparent in IE with the code below. I don't know about other browsers.

CODE

<iframe src="framed.html" allowtransparency="true" style="background-color: transparent">

Note that the framed page can't have a defined background.

[i_jr_i]

No. You need an iframe then. Iframes have transparent background by default in gecko browsers and can be made transparent in IE with the code below. I don't know about other browsers.

CODE

<iframe src="framed.html" allowtransparency="true" style="background-color: transparent">

Note that the framed page can't have a defined background.

Thank-You. And Hopefully it works with Fire-Fox. Which is what I use..

[pandy]

You don't need to do anything for FF. Just don't define a backgrund for the framed page.