Have A Layer Appear Over A Frameset?

[SlickVic78]

Hello my fellow Web Gurus,

I am messing around with layers and was wondering if it is possible to have 1 layer appear over a frameset.

Here is the example:

Picture this - a popup window with a frameset within (splitting the window into 2 sections). Would it be possible to have a layer appear taking up the entire window (which would apear above both frames and not appear only in one of them)? I would like to make this layer visable, and then when the layer spawns, there will be an option to hide the layer to again show the frameset within the window.

I seem to only be able to have the layer appear in one or the other frame, but not over both frames.

Any info, as always, will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!,
-SlickVic78

[Sephiroth]

If I'm understanding you right, it is possible, but a pain in the ass to do right. If you remember, on the front page of the last design we had, I had toggle buttons at the top to expand and contract the sidebar. Are you trying to do something like that? If so, take a look at:
http://www.codingforums.com/showthre...threadid=11782

That's where I asked how to do the expand contract effect, maybe you can use the code there to get accomplish what you're trying to do.

[Zone-MR]

You can manipulate layers inside other framesets as adam pointed out, but as such it is not possible to have an object that overlaps over more than one frame.

As a workaround you could try using a table with <iframe>'s to create your frameset, and have the layer created on the main page. Havent tried this, so I have no idea if it would work.

[SlickVic78]

Thanks for the ideas Sephiroth and Zone-MR. After looking into the matter a little bit more (alright, a lot more )... I ended up going the route you mentioned Zone-MR.

I've learned that it is not possible to pop a layer over an entire frameset being each frame is considered it's own page... The the entire window is then not treated as a whole.

So to accomplish this, I set up an iframe that calls in the page that sets up the frameset. This way I can set up and call the layer within the page that has the iframe (ilayer for NS) in it.

This works well in IE... NS, well, still working on that...

Thanks for the help guys!
-SlickVic78