[Webdev] Use of Object Tag

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "ndowney" == ndowney  <ndowney at silverstorm-ireland.net> writes:

    ndowney> Hi All,
    ndowney> I want to be able to embed one html document in
    ndowney> another. I also want the embeded html to appear in a box
    ndowney> of fixed size. The OBJECT tag should do what I want. The
    ndowney> little html doc. below shows a test I want to get
    ndowney> working. I can access the embeded doc.  as a link but not
    ndowney> as an embeded document. What am I doing wrong ?. Also,
    ndowney> assuming it will work, is it possible to have a fixed
    ndowney> size box/border around the embeded html ?.

No, you need to use the iframe tag for that.  According to my bible,
ilayer is suppoerted in IE and it is part of the HTML 4.0 standard.
It doesn't say whether NS supports it.  However, NS has the ilayer
tag, which seems (to my untutored eye) to be similar to the ilayer
tag, so you could cover most of yout bases with:

<iframe src="content.html">
 <ilayer src="content.html">
  Sorry, your browser does not support the iframe or ilayer tags,
  which are required for this section of the page to be visible.
 </ilayer>
</iframe>

You should be able to do borders with CSS; iframe has some built-in
border features also.

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