Thread: Inline Frame Box vs. Text Area Box

This may be a dumb question, but can anyone describe the difference between the two and which one is best suited for putting a large amount of text (approx. 12 pages of text) into?

Thanks for any feedback!

Danny Canada

Use an inline frame. Text areas are meant for forms, inline frames are meant for content.

Thanks for the quick response Whatdaflip!

Much appreciated with the comments regarding the two. a quick question, why does the text area box not have a form of carriage return to mark the end of the window? I have to take a stab at the end so it displays properly.

Thanks!

Danny

STOP the presses.

Do you want search engines to be able to read this text? What is the purpose of it? And you want to put that many of pages on one page of a website?

And when you use the text area box, it will automatically take the words down to the next line - you don't have to use the carriage return unless you want to force it to go at a certain point (try it).

Hi Bethers

Thanks for the reply!

I am going to split the pages up into months and years so that each page won't be so long.

I did try the "Text Area" box and you were right in that it does wrap automatically. It is just hard to read each paragraph because each one is a single line across the page and I have to scroll back and forth to view what I have written.

Any thoughts?

Danny

Forgot to add the fact that this web site is not for the general public and has no need to be picked up by the search engines. It is for shareholders, lawyers and a select few who will have password access.

Danny, make the text box less wide - and it will go down where you want it - you can make it only an inch wide if you want.

And if this is for the people you say, then using a inline frame would work for this.

You could even have the months listed down the lefthand side
which would link each month to different text in a single i-frame if you wished............
See tips and tricks forum.

Originally Posted by davidundalicia

You could even have the months listed down the lefthand side
which would link each month to different text in a single i-frame if you wished............
See tips and tricks forum.

Thanks David!

Yes, I am planning to place the months on the left hand side and am right now trying to figure the best way to format the text for easy reading for the viewers.

You will need 12 seperate pages and on those pages you can have as many text boxes as you wish running down the page.

So formatting can be as easy or as hard as you want to make it...........

have fun

I put an I-frame on one of my pages, but cannot figure out how to get text into it? What am I doing wrong!

Thanks!

Danny

you have a page with your i-frame and another page with your text.

go into the i-frame properties box and enter the url of the text page.

Thanks David!

Wow, I am still building the site am trying figure this one out of how best to set it up.

All my text (11 pages) are in WORD format that I would need to some how copy or paste into an HTML page.

Any ideas how to best set this up?

Thanks!

Danny

I believe that there is an option in word to produce a html page, check it out....

Copy and paste of word will be a small amount of work and I suggest you work in small amounts at a time. Word is a word processor - and what you see online is not. But - take sections at a time - copy and paste into BV - and make sure you look and see if you need to make any changes to it. As you finish one section, then go to the next.

If it's all text, you shouldn't have many problems - but if you used things like tabs or tables, that won't carry over quite right and you'll have to make adjustments.

Dave mentions the html - but then you'll need to put it into an html box - which can be done - but it still won't necessarily be completely compatible. I recommened the copy and paste method - making changes if and when necessary.

Make sure you run it through spell check on word first :)

Thanks Bethers!!

Here is what I am doing. Please comment if it is in the right direction:

1) created a new "blank" page roughly a little bigger than the dimensions of my I-frame; next,

2) Inserted a large box with white "background"; next,

3) inserted WORD paragraphs into each text frame.

Sound correct? If so can I "preview" the finished work or does it have to be published first?

Thanks

Danny

1) create the text page just a little SMALLER (width wise)..length can be anything.

2) add a text box, the copy/paste some text.
(repeat as often as you like.)

both pages will need to be published to see the finished result.

Thanks David!

I did just that and it worked like a charm. However, it will only allow me to insert text up to approx. 6900 pixels

You could always break down the length of the text and at the bottom put in a CONTINUE link to the next page of text within your I-frame..............

Hi David

I have everything setup and have split the pages into two sections by placing a "Continue" button at the bottom of the I-Frame. On the next page, I placed a "Previous" button at the bottom of the page to return the viewer back to the first page.

It would be nice to have the ability to see the process work under "Preview".

Thanks for all your helps as well as the rest of you!!

Just a quick thought, if this text is not for public, that means you will be giving it to a specific people "maybe by password protection or something, If so, why don't you create a pdf file and and put the link for people to open it, then they can read it or download it.

Hey Nite

Good question!

First, I don't have Acrobat inwhich to create the PDF and don't really want to spend $600 buying the software and was looking for a cheaper way of doing it: and

Second, I am constantly having to update the WORD file and felt it would be easier to just edit the HTML and upload it when required.

I guess I could have downloaded the 30 day trial and ripped off all my PDF in one shot, but that wouldn't have helped me in the long run with updates.

Does this all make sense?

if you don't mind, send me your text, I'll convert it for you to pdf for free, let me know to give you my e-mail.

Holly has listed a free pdf converter on here also - just do a search for the thread.

It would be the easiest way.

Hey Nite and Bethers, thanks for all your input and assistance on getting this to work for me! (thanks for the offer there Nite as well!)

I pretty much have the all my templates completed and have already converted all my WORD documents into the I-frame as HTML. It was a breeze pasting in all the text and only took me about 15 minutes, not counting the time it took me to create the second page with the help of major general Dave.

All that is left to do is fill in and touch up a few sections and as well I have to create an index page that is password protected.

You people have been great!