create iframe transparency with xslt

fany · November 11th, 2003, 09:30 AM

Hello, I am loading an .xsl page from the IFRAME element, having
"allowtransparency" property set to "true".

<iframe src="some.xsl" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>

and

some.xsl is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body style="background : transparent;">
    Text
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Now, if it was an .html with body background set to transparent, all would be fine, but this simply doesn't work. Does anybody know why?

Thank you,

Fany :)

joefawcett · November 11th, 2003, 12:43 PM

Other people have mentioned this but I don't know why it happens, it's not just this feature that doesn't work. Presumably it's because by the time the browser has worked out it needs to load an embedded stylesheet it has parsed the content of the iframe as xml and is unable to now change its mind and see it as html.

Joe (MVP - xml)