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nadinef
11-12-02, 04:18 PM
Hello there,

I have have small form for people to fill out and submit on my website www.wfigroup.net (under technical and investor sections) When I view the form in Netscape the buttons aren't there. I can see them in the page source but they do not show up on the page. I created this page in dreamweaver. Is there a certain way to do it in order for it to work with netscape as well as internet explorer?

thanks for any help you can offer!
Ddr
11-12-02, 05:11 PM
Hi Nadine

If I am not mistaken, it is because almost all but the lastest versions of Netscape can't see the iframe tags. If you built that form and page without it, it would have more cross browser compatibility

Hope this helps,

Dale
nadinef
11-12-02, 05:25 PM
Hello Ddr,

So you are saying if i build the page without iframes and it is viewed in netscape, the buttons should show up?
Ddr
11-12-02, 06:56 PM
You might want to hold off a few till someone else adds their opinion, Nadine. But I have built many pages with simple forms using Dreamweaver and never had a compatibility problem with anything. Form html is about as basic and standard as any code can be. But I do remember reading about earlier versions of Netscape and IFrames....and Netscape and Layers,,,,and so on.

As simple as those pages are, you could probably recreate them using tables instead of iframes with Dreamweaver in a very few minutes.

This my opinion, though I am still not saying this with 100% certainty.

Dale
nadinef
11-12-02, 07:04 PM
Well Ddr,

I was in the process of rebuilding it all for Netscape anyway, I recently became aware of the problem netscape was having with the iframes. They dont seem to scroll at all!.

I was going to post the new site with 2 versions, one for IE one for netscape, tomorrow but wanted to get some information on this last problem (the buttons). If the fix is to take out the iframes and use simple frames, then I have actually fixed the problem already! I will be posting it tomorrow to test the form.

Thank you for your help. I will post back if they still are not showing up when the form is in a frame.
nadinef
11-13-02, 12:39 PM
well that didnt fix my problem.. i have the form in a blank page, no frames, no iframes, nothing.. and the buttons still will not show up in netscape... here is a copy of the simple code... there is a small javascript in there for some reason and i was wondering if that might be the problem. it still does not work even if i take it out tho.. :(

<html>
<head>
<title>Technical E-mail Form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_reloadPage(init) { //reloads the window if Nav4 resized
if (init==true) with (navigator) {if ((appName=="Netscape")&&(parseInt(appVersion)==4)) {
document.MM_pgW=innerWidth; document.MM_pgH=innerHeight; onresize=MM_reloadPage; }}
else if (innerWidth!=document.MM_pgW || innerHeight!=document.MM_pgH) location.reload();
}
MM_reloadPage(true);
// -->
</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="4%">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="96%">
<p><font face="Verdana"><b><font size="2">You are now entering a secure
area. </font></b></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">If you have already obtained the
user name and password for the <b><font color="#FF0000">Technical section</font></b>,
please fill out this form and continue to the login screen. </font><b><font size="2">You
must fill out both the Name and E-Mail Address fields. </font></b><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">WayFare
requires this information to insure the security of the data in this section.
Your privacy is guaranteed. </font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">If you have not yet received this
information, please <a href="mailto:%20info@wfigroup.com">email us</a>
and we can forward it to you. </font></font></p>
<p>
<input type="text" name="Name">
<b><font face="Trebuchet MS">Name</font></b></p>
<p>
<input type="text" name="email">
<b><font face="Trebuchet MS">E-Mail Address</font></b></p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit">
<img height=8
src="/images/spacer.gif"
width=20>
<input type=reset value="Clear Form" name="reset">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>
blurchy
11-14-02, 02:12 PM
hi

again :)

can you see these buttons in netscape

http://www.neutron1.com/TEMP/e_mail_example_simple.htm

also the javascript thats in there can be removed
by going to commands add/remove netscape fix
all this is for is to make sure layers are resized
properly for netscape
reloads the window if Nav4 resized
it appears when you use layers
but if the layer is gone its ok

by the way you have no <form> tag in that e

mailer form and your email address is showing

mailto:%20info@wfigroup.com

which means u have a space before info :)
nadinef
11-15-02, 11:30 AM
wow, thanks Blurchy AGAIN!

there were numerous errors that i created removing the frame. (i removed the space on the mailto as well as replaced the form information that got deleted when i removed the iframe)

but where i think it was failing in netscape but not in explorer were in the subtle differences in the button codes.

this works in explorer but not in netscape:

<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit">
<input type=reset value="Clear Form" name="reset">

this is the code you gave me that works great in netscape:

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="send">
<input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset">

the difference in the name fields or input types i think is where i was having trouble.

Thank you again for your help, i believe it is working just fine now!
blurchy
11-15-02, 11:57 AM
cool :)

glad its ok

ill have those iframe scripts up soon
ive had problems with my website
but ive got a temporary fix for it now

and i work now so not had time

jus keep looking :)