On 21 Jul 98, Suzanne wrote:
> Is it possible to set the background color to black on my main frames
> pages so that instead of the grey [or whatever] default color appearing in
> the empty frame while the page for that frame loads, the empty frame will
> appear to be black?
Sure... first, put a little icon of a a palette on the page, and then enclose
the following notice inside a <blink> tag:
"This page is optimized for black backgrounds!!! Go to your browser's
Preferences menu and change the default page background color, then
reload. Come to think of it -- you should also go to Netscape and
download NS 4.5, which should only take about 3 hours with a 28.8
modem. THEN come back and view this site!"
Nah, just being silly. There's no practical way of doing what you want,
not that I know of. Though a possible kludge comes to mind: using either
Javascript or meta-refresh, you could load an initial empty page (empty
except for a black background, that is) and then have the frame(s)
immediately reload with the correct page. I suppose this would help a
little, though it might be off-putting for the user, who would presumably
see a blurp as the first page ended and the second one began loading.
But as for a legal HTML way of doing it: no. <body> inside <frameset>
will be ignored (except within <noframes>, of course), and enclosing
<frameset> inside <body> will bring Netscape to its knees; don't know
about MSIE. And there is no <frame bgcolor=x> attribute available, or
equivalent.
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