Layers

[Widescreen]

hi guys
is it possible to put a layer in a page and have the contents of that layer be an external page?

 

[deadserious]

Yes I think that would be possible. You could do it with some server side technology like PHP or .SHTML. If you can show us exactly what you're trying to do I could probably give you some examples on how you could go about doing it. You can also take a look at this for including external files: http://www.webdesigntalk.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171

 

[DarkDevil]

with php just use <?php include 'content.html'; ?>
with html use Server Side Include which goes something like...
<!--#include virtual="content.html" --> but if your going to use ssi your files have to be .shtml

i hope this helps, i'm not to sure what you mean by layers...

 

[pistol]

Why not just an IFrame?

 

[Widescreen]

thanks

thanks for your help

 

[DarkDevil]

iframes work to, but then you gotta get into css to remove the frames and scrollbars.

 

[pistol]

true enough, but i've seen this done to good effect: http://www.pixelzentrum.de/

 

[DarkDevil]

true

 

[daisha]

i use scrolling layers with a javascript show/hide effect. if you use dreamweaver, you can find it there.

 

[DarkDevil]

cool, thats the one way i've never done it. I'll have to look into it sometime...