Round Iframes? or another way?

[HippieKitty218]

Hi, I am creating a new layout & I've used iframes before in all of my past layouts. The way that I make my website is I make one main rectangular graphic that has a design layout, menu & title on it, then I put an iframe somewhere on it so that all of the pages open up inside of it. Now with the new layout I'm making the place where I want all of the pages to open is a circle.... is there a way to make a circular ifram so that the text & conent is rounded inside the iframe so that it says in the circle on the layout? if I can't do it with iframes, is there another way? Please help! Thanks so much!

Btw, I thought about the whole transparent gifs as a last resort kinda thing because the only thing wrong with that is of course some of the text would be covered up & the only text you could ready full is the ones right in the middle of the circle and anything that could scroll up to the middle of it. I really want something that will make the text wrap inside the circle so you can see all of it.

[Neballer]

The closest thing you're going to be able to do is have your iframe background be transparent, and have it sit on a round visual element. Circular html elements don't exist - at least I don't think they do.

[Drazan]

^^yep.

Round Iframes don't exist.

However, I have seen really neat things done in Flash. Even a blog that was publishes slanted. Perhaps there is some options loading text into a predetermined shape. At least that would be a direction to try.

Also note: Both IFrames and Flash are not very search engine happy. But if you are looking for more of a visual impact - go for it.

[HippieKitty218]

^^yep.

Round Iframes don't exist.

However, I have seen really neat things done in Flash. Even a blog that was publishes slanted. Perhaps there is some options loading text into a predetermined shape. At least that would be a direction to try.

Also note: Both IFrames and Flash are not very search engine happy. But if you are looking for more of a visual impact - go for it.

I didn't think round iframes did exist... that's why I was wondering if there was an alternative way to accomplish that result. I just DLed a 30-day trial of Flash & I'll see what that's about... you don't happen to have the link to that slanted blog or anything else that I could look at or talk to the people about it do you?

[Drazan]

give me a bit and I'll see what I can find. The slanted blog was done with Flash MX a couple years ago. I don't have that specific link.

But as googling goes - I get pretty lucky.

[Alex Traska]

yea i've occasionally wished for a way to 'slant' text using just html/css code but it is of course impossible. I did a site layout (layout (css), graphics and nav only) on this site here and wanted a slanted nav. The only way I could do it was to create a transparent flash movie for the nav. It was very easy to do and the flash file is only 5k!

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