Replacing an iframe with an object

[Graham J]

Hello,

Despite GoLive 6 still not wanting to acknowledge its existence, I have been
using a 468x60 IFRAME for the single task of displaying advertising banners
that are randomly generated by a remote cgi script. However as I am in the
process of switching to doing things 'properly' (stopping abusing tables for
layout etc) I believe that I should ideally be replacing IFRAME with an
OBJECT and using the DATA parameter (GoLive doesn't know that one either,
bless its little cotton socks). Is this correct thinking or should I being
doing it another way? Server side stuff is not an option.

The problem I had is that the 468x60 OBJECT was getting scrollbars that I
didn't want it to have and I didn't seem to be able to stop this happening
using css in the parent document (but that could be my inexperience
showing). I found in IE6(Win) that having the cgi script generating the
advertising page with a 'body { margin: 0px; overflow: hidden }' dealt with
that which seemed to make sense. However in Opera 7.03(Win) I still seem to
see some slight margins and the scrollbars wont go away.

Now is this just Opera being a little buggy or should I be looking to do
more to bend it to my will?

Thanks,

Graham

[Graham J]

Re: Replacing an iframe with an object

> Now is this just Opera being a little buggy or should I be looking to do[color=blue]
> more to bend it to my will?[/color]

Whoops, I'd somehow never noticed before that Opera has non-zero padding on
the body by default. Zeroing that does the job though I still don't see why
it added scrollbars.

More of interest is that when Internet Explorer reads the embedded document
it splats any <TITLE> out of that on the title bar. That just seems plain
wrong.