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Arun Jacob
http://codepronet.blogspot.com/

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http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/samples/html/country-list.html[^]

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Hope this help!

Jinal Desai

Where from this is a query related to ASP.NET? D'Oh! | :doh:

Hi,

I am using iFrame to display output of HTML code. For this I have set URL attribute of iFrame to "http:/somesite/default.aspx". This URL returns a text which gets displyed in iFrame.

But, my client is not happy with using iFrame due to its disadvantages and security problems. Is there any other control which I can use to catch the output of my URL and display on a web page?

I tried <object> tag with "data" attribute. but it does not work. One thing to note here: I cannot use AJAX or Javascript because of business logic constraints. The desired code will be given to end user and he will paste it in his own web site page to see the output returned by URL. Just like ad banner.

Thanks in advance.

Frameset is also there you can use Frame

Still if you are not happy,

You can get the output using

xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = ProcessRequest;
xmlHttp.open( "GET", Url, true );
xmlHttp.send( null );
}

function ProcessRequest()
{
//Type your code to read response data and put it out on your page
}

Best Regards,
Chetan Patel

Example
document.getElementById('divtodiaplsy").innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText;

do some R & D on it and it works

Best Regards,
Chetan Patel

You should have updated your previous reply other than replying again.
All your comments related to one thing would had been at one place then.

I've been dealing with this myself for quite some time. Though some people may frown upon the practice of using iframes, sometimes it is the only (or at least the most sane and feasible) way to "interface" two standalone software systems. Also, there is rumor that IFRAME may become deprecated, but the jury appears to still be out on that. So, it's a good thing to start examining alternatives now.

That said, here is an article that may interest you:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331[^] - The most pertinent part is about halfway down. It's a bit technical, but worth the read.

Here are more links that may help:

http://intranation.com/test-cases/object-vs-iframe/[^]

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread568067.html[^]

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/6539.htm[^]

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/dump_iframes_and_use_object_elements_instead/[^]

Second Method is described below.

The use of iframes is an ongoing controversy. Are they good? Are they bad? I can honestly say I’m unbiased on this. I feel that iframes aren’t necessarily bad, but that there are alternatives that allow for better accessibility and greater search engine optimization. This is a mini-tutorial (hardly any work at all) dealing with CSS and XHTML which will allow you to create the same effect that comes with the standard iframe.

To start off, all you’ll need to create your ‘iframe’ is a DIV layer, and a cascading stylesheet linked to the source (optional).

Step 1: Create your div.

<div>Paragraph or two of text here....</div>

Step 2: Add the styles to the div.
This is fairly simple. If you don’t have a stylesheet linked to the source, or have a style section in the head at the top of your source, you can simply add the following attribute to the div element.

<div style="overflow:auto; width:200px; height:200px;">Paragraph or two of text here....</div>

If you’re using a linked stylesheet or have one in the head at the top of your source, define the div with the following (NOTE: I am using the div class ‘iframecopy’ with this example so you’ll have to add class=”iframecopy” to the div attribute for it to work.):

div.iframecopy {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
overflow: auto;
}

That’s it! What you typed simply says that once the text reaches a height of 200px, the famous iframe scrollbar will appear, allowing the div to stay at the specified height and still contain more text than that which it would ordinarily allow.

There you have it! An iframe copy, using a single div and a little bit of CSS, without the mess of unecessary attributes that are needed to make the iframe practical.

If you want to go even further with this, you can use PHP ‘includes’ to get the ‘target’ feature that comes with iframes and links used together. I hope this opens your horizons a bit, while still allowing the functionality of the recognized iframe.

Just FYI - I know AJAX is big now, but, among other things, I do have concerns over cross-browser compatibility issues involving XMLHttpRequest (I think this may be Microsoft-specific, so not sure how this would work across all the modern browsers now available, i.e. Mozilla-flavors, FireFox, Opera, etc.). Again, not sure, but it is cause for pause. As a matter of fact, I read this http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/51-PHPClasses-20-Beta-AJAX-XMLHttpRequest-x-IFrame.html[^] not long ago at PHP Classes where the experts there decided to support Iframe and not AJAX for several reasons.

Hope this helps!

Jinal Desai

Thanks all for your inputs.. I ended up using an OBJECT tag with data attribute pointing to the desired URL. This works smoothly in all browsers except IE Frown | :(

Right now searching for fixing this for IE.

<object type="text/html"

data="http://www.mywebsite.com/mypage.aspx" style="width:xxpx;height:xxpx; border:none" border="0">

Hi,

I am implementing url rewriting in my website by using urlrewriter.net(Intelligencia.UrlRewriter) and i am facing problem when i click for second time display of products.
in my web.config i have written

<rewriter>
<rewrite url="~/Products/(.*)" to="~/Products.aspx?CategoryId=$1"/>
</rewriter>

And my href fro product is given as:
<li><a href='Products/" & intCategoryId(222) & "'>" & strMenu(laptops) & "</a>"

First time I am getting path as:
http://localhost/intelligencia/products/222

In second click I am getting
http://localhost/intelligencia/products/products/800
but i want it as:
http://localhost/intelligencia/products/800 for every product i click.

The problem is thre relative link for the Product:

XML

<li><a href='Products/" & intCategoryId(222) & "'>" & strMenu(laptops) & "</a>"

You'll want that to be rooted to the application path:

XML

<li><a href='" & Page.ResolveUrl("~/Products/") & intCategoryId(222) & "'>" & strMenu(laptops) & "</a>"

Freestyle Interactive Ltd | Martin on .Net

Thanks Martin it's working.Thanks once again it help me a lot.

It ran successfully but the main condition is that instead of categoryid display in url I want the name of that product but search will be through categoryid only and it should not display in url
Currently it is:
http://localhost/intelligencia/Products/222

But I want it like

http://localhost/intelligencia/Products/Laptops

and the name coming with spaces should be replaced with '-' as:

http://localhost/intelligencia/Products/External-Drives

Hi Everyone,
Is their is any Open Source for Learning Management System(LMS) available in ASP.NET? if there plz mention the URl or details.

Thnx
Kanna.

how do i add support to play LIve FP TV in my website....searched a lot but found no answer yet.
I will be Thankfull for your help

have u tried using V-ware from BEST TV, its a very useful tool u cld use.

I have never read about v-ware before .Now i will read about this and see if it fullfill my requirements.
Thanks for your help

Dear all,

I have a dedicated server window 2003 and it got hacked by someone. I could not understand how it happened. then I changed all password to access my server. Now On every two or three days my asp.net project's bin directory or other files got deleted I just could not understand how and who is playing this game with my server.

I am very disappointed with such activity.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
Rohit

This is a C# forum my friend you cannot find that kinda help here..
anyway you can try this though

I will be the next one to hack that server of yours Cool | :cool:

Later

hello all
I have taken a variable (int) having value as 100.
Now I want to convert that value into Datetime in 1 minute 40 seconds a form.

could anyone tell me how to convert the static integer value into datetime value sp that i could use that value in my project??

Thanks in advance

Why don't you create your own method with the logic of getting time out of given minutes?
Using all the known things like... 1 day=24 hours, 1 hour = 60 min, 1 min=60 sec... you can do it!

I have taken ajax timer control and in the "timer1_tick" event,its time interval is 1000 meaning that it will tick every second
Now, my code is

class abc
{
static int countdown = 100;
protected void page_load()
{

}

timer1_tick()
{
countdown--;
label.Text = countdown.ToString() + "seconds remaining";
}
}

Now I want that label.Text should display 100 as 1 minutes 40 seconds

after 1 tick
it should display 1 minute 39 sec..
after 2nd tick
1 minute 38 seconds
and so on...

for that I want 100 value in the datetime.
plz help

It's even easier to get the time in seconds or minutes by writing your own custom function

could you give one example for that

Its very simple buddy.

int min = 100/60;
int sec = 100%60;

just do like this.