[nick1]

Greetings,

this is what i want to implement:

1.) create a window on a web page that displays a message inside of it.

2.) have this window link to a text file that, when i update this text file, displays the contents of the text file in the window on the webpage.

HELP WANTED! =)

Thank you for your time,

*Nick*

[Henry]

ur gonn need php or asp for the text file idea but for the window in the window an example is at:

http://codelifter.com/main/javascrip...ablelayer.html

[Lost]

Simple enough:

Code:

<iframe src="somefilename.txt" width="400" height="200"></iframe>

[MadCoder]

As for the "EASY" suggestions giving earlier...

Code:

<iframe src="somefilename.txt" width="400" height="200"></iframe>

this would be a very poor solution. The IFRAME tag is being dropped by the W3C very soon and the only supporting browser will be IE and that's questionable at this point.

1. [bold]PHP [/bold]
This is a very simple solution to accomplish this task. Simply insert
the following code in to a webpage.php file. Example...

PHP Code:

     <?php

      //  If file is located within same directory use 

      //  include ("./file.txt");



      //  Otherwise... 

          include ("/pathtofile/file.txt");

     ?>

2. [bold]Use SSI[/bold]
If your webhost supports SSI (Server Side Includes) you can
simply use the following line to insert a global text file...

Code:

     <!--#include virtual="text.file" -->

Most webhost require you to rename any file or weebpage that
contains a SSI tag to a file extension of ".shtml". A way around
this is to open the .HTACCESS file within your account's public
web directory and add the following to a new line within the file...

Code:

     # Run SSI on all files with these extenstions
     AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html .htm

Once you've added and configured your htaccess file to your
preferences you can then add the SSI tag (above) to any file with
with the extensions you configured.


Hope that helped!!

[KingSky]

The IFRAME tag is being dropped by the W3C very soon and the only supporting browser will be IE and that's questionable at this point.

Just curious if you have any evidence to support this?

The W3C supports the IFRAME tag in both their HTML and XHTML specifications. Not only that but besides IE, the newest versions of Mozilla, Firefox, AND Opera all support IFRAME. I seriously doubt that it is going to be dropped, at least anytime soon.

[MadCoder]

Just read the W3C new HTML / XHTML specifications of the up and coming revision.

Plus there was a big article in a recent sitepoint newsletter regarding this subject and other updates and exclusions to the W3C standard.

As for Opera, yes Opera does currently support IFRAME tags, but they have stated that they will update the browsers engine to be 100% compliant to the standard, quoting... "WE'LL REMOVE ANY OUTDATED TAGS DEFINED BY W3C" and this would include the IFRAME tag.

When I have a few minutes I'll locate the links to the sources I'm refering to.

[Henry]

bugga

i hope they dont cause allthoguh iframes have serious down falls they can still be usefull