Iframes good or bad?

MattB · 11 Jan 2006 at 13:36

I am in the process of developing a site, I am considering using iframes on the site is this a bad idea and if I do use them what will be the effect on the site?

Cheers

MattB

MattB · 11 Jan 2006 at 13:53

Mr_L said:
Well I know that the iframe tag has been dropped from XHTML strict so if you want to use it then you'd have to use a transitional doctype.

Search engines don't particulaly like frames/iframes and there are other and much better ways of displaying content than these.

How were you thinking of using the frames?

I was thinking of using iframe in some sort image gallery.

MattB · 11 Jan 2006 at 17:29

Cheers for the help guys, the reason I need to use iframe was because I wanted to have a thumbnail gallery which when the thumbnail is clicked on displays a larger version of the picture on the page without having to reload the whole page again.
What could be an alternative to using iframe to do this?

MattB · 11 Jan 2006 at 19:47

robmiller said:
You could use Javascript, with an HTML fall-back in case the user doesn't have it enabled

That sounds like it would be just what I need, any idea where I could find an example of this?

Cheers

MattB