HTML - iframe CSS

[mtanti]

I once read on a tutorial that iframes are useful when you have non technical people writing text files to update a section of your web site, such as a secratery writing the news section.

There are useful because you just upload a plain text text file to a location and the iframe will have it displayed with formatting. Such as colour, font, background, etc.

How do you apply formatting to an iframe that way?

THANKS!

[j777]

You could do something like http://www.citrusmoon.net/miscitems/mimic/this.html (look at the page source) to mimic an iframe and then use some server-side scripting (maybe php) to simply include the text from the file in the document.

[z-component]

Yeah if you have PHP you could use "include" to include a stylesheet to the file you're updating. The file can be a plain PHP page with only text and the include command at the top.

[-Job-]

The standard way is to pull the text dynamically from XML or a database and write it to the page via a server-side script, like ASP or PHP. The advantage of this is that you can then, for example, make a form that allows you to "post" new, or edit old, content.

But if you want to use IFrames with CSS, then:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html#h-16.5
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/frameset.asp