[johnbaker17]

I want to have a short top frame with a text field and a submit button in it. I want users to be able to enter text that would correlate with existing html files and have that file appear in the main frame. In short, it'll be a kind of library where the user can call up any file they wish to view. How difficult is this going to be?
Thanks,
John

[cam]

first things first .. welcome to the forum

oh, and this doesn't belong here but an admin will move it i'm sure.

it sounds pretty straightforward to me. if by "enter text that would correlate with existing html files" you, as i suspect, mean a search function then you should be looking at creating your solution using a scripting language such as PHP or ASP, of which there are numerous pre-made examples.

oh, and you most likely don't need to use frames (they're evil).

[seen.to]

Originally Posted by i_am_cam

oh, and you most likely don't need to use frames (they're evil).

It's true - they are evil! And I used to swear by them using 9 frames when I created the final version of the
Freemoney site! Frame handling was one of the main things that led me to single browser support as they all seem to handle frames, (and tables and CSS), just that little bit differently.

View Freemoney using IE and everything is as I intended it to be but view it in Firefox (which I've recently started using thanks to recommendations of forum users) and stuff starts to break, frames move a pixel here or there as to tables and some CSS isn't recognised.

I've since stopped using frames altogether unless a client insists on their use can't be dissuaded.