thanks for the suggestion. I am hoping for something a bit more robust but
I'm afraid that it doesn't exist.
Michael J. Fox
Acting Assistant Director for Library and Archives
Minnesota Historical Society
345 Kellogg Blvd West
St. Paul, MN 55102-2409
651-296-2150 (phone)
651-296-9961 (fax)
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> From: Kevin Cawley[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: <dao> attributes
>
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Fox, Michael wrote:
>
> > Whilst we are on this subject, does anyone know of a way in HTML to
> cause
> > the content of an external text file to be inserted into an HTML
> instance?
> > Not just a link but actually embedded?
> >
>
> This is probably not what you want, but there is a way to put in a
> floating
> frame that some browsers support.
>
> <iframe
> src="test.txt"
> align="left"
> frameborder="0"
> scrolling="no"
> width="800"
> height="1600">
> <a href="test.htm">Your browser doesn't support iframe:
> click here to see what you missed.</a>
> </iframe>
>
> Internet Explorer will display the text from test.txt. Netscape will only
> see the link, which you can click to see test.htm
>
> But you need to know how much space the external file will take up, or
> else allow scrolling in the frame. And you need to wrap the whole thing
> in a table if you want to continue with more HTML after the iframe. (It's
> generally used for sidebars with the rest of the text flowing around it.)
>
> -- Kevin Cawley
> Archivist
> University of Notre Dame
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