[babyewok]

I recently set up an iframe which contained an email form. Clicking on submit executed the php script fine. However, I am concerned about cross browser compatibility where the allow transparency attribute is concerned.

I thought maybe I could use a div overflow to get around this. It all seems to work nicely until you click submit and instead of executing the script a box pops up and asks you if you want to open or save the script. Obviously that's not right.

Is it even possible to execute a script from within a div tag like this? If it is, what would I need to change tp allow it to work properly?

Any advice is most appreciated.

[sushi4664]

Why are you using an iframe?

[Vicious]

do you have a link to the example? I don't really understand what you mean, so maybe that link will help.

[babyewok]

The page is on a site I'm working in for a client. http://www.stockscoachworks.co.uk/contact.html

The form is currently in an iframe and works fine, but as I said I'm exploring the use of div overflow instead because the allow transparency attribite is apparently not cross browser compatible.

[sushi4664]

Here try this, its a prewritten script that works pretty well:

http://www.twinhelix.com/dhtml/divscroll/

[job0107]

I tried your input form with some dummy information and I am using IE6 & FireFox. It seemed to function just fine. By the way really nice layout.

[sushi4664]

Yea, don't get me wrong, your form looks fine in Netscape, Opera, Firefox, and IE7. But if you want to really use a different method from i-frames, you can use the link I provided above.

[babyewok]

Thanks for all your help. I have actually sorted the transparency problem now. I checked the page in http://browsershots.org - a great tool by the way for checking cross browser compatibility - and tried a few things out.

At first the main problem was with ie 5 and 5.5 which are still used by a few people, so I wanted to make sure the iframes worked for people with those browsers. Turned out to be a simple case of forgetting to make the background of the source file transparent as well as adding the allowtransparency attribute to the iframe.

The iframe now works fine in ie 5.5 and although still not transparent in ie 5, at least it works (before the iframe did not show at all). I think transparency was only added with 5.5 onwards. Other than that, the only other browser that doesn't like the transparency attribute is konquerer 3.5.5.....and who uses that?!!

[Vicious]

what css did you use for the transparency? (I'm curious, because I want to know what code doesn't work in IE5)