I think what you really want is a border that shows *inside* the frame bounds, but over all of the content in that frame. There isn't really a mechanism to draw things like this currently.
Simon On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Patrick East <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank for the suggestion, I found that using the outline style on a frame and > iframe :hover selector only seemed to work on iframes and not frames in a > frameset. I’ve attached a sample that shows the problem, if you’re curious to > see what happens. If you look at the frameset.html page and mouse over the > bottom frame that contains an iframe, the border style is the only one that > shows up, and it is on the outermost frame in the frameset gets a border in > addition to the iframe. > > I suspect the behavior we are trying to get isn’t really achievable with just > the default html.css styling. We are going to look into using the focus ring > mechanism as James MacLean suggested earlier. > > > Patrick East > [email protected] > > From: Elliott Sprehn [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 12:54 PM > To: Patrick East > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] "highlighting" a frame > > You'll want outline not border for this. > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of W. > James MacLean > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:09 PM > To: Patrick East > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] "highlighting" a frame > > If you're just looking to draw a border, will the focus rings mechanism > suffice? > > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Patrick East <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We are working on a custom build of WebKit that will "highlight" a frame when > the mouse moves over it (the intent is to have it draw a border around it for > use with a custom input device). We have tried modifying the webcore html.css > file adding in a :hover selector for frame and iframe that sets the border > property, but this doesn't work correctly for embedded frames. When we test > mousing over them it draws the border on the outer-most frame and not the > inner frame which is what I want. > > Unfortunately I don't know much about the css code in WebKit, so any > suggestions on how this could be achieved would be much appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Patrick East > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > > <frameset.html><links.html><spatial-navigation-test-cases - > iframe_outline.html>_______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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