HTML/CSS Add Formatting to iframe Using HTML & CSS

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Iframes are beneficial for non-technical users, such as secretaries, who need to update website content easily by uploading plain text files. These files can be displayed within iframes with formatting like color, font, and background. To apply formatting to an iframe, one can use server-side scripting, such as PHP, to include stylesheets and dynamically pull content from text files or databases. This method allows for more flexibility, enabling users to post new content or edit existing content through forms. For those interested in using iframes with CSS, references to HTML and DHTML documentation provide further guidance on implementation.
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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?

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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.
 
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
 
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