Stability of IFRAME and LAYER

[Stryker]

Hi all,

I have a rather complex banner on a site I'm putting together right now and I'm wondering about {IFRAME} and {LAYER} stability. I would really like to avoid copying this complex banner to every page, and I don't want to use FRAMES pages. I currently have the following and it seems to work in the browser variations I've tried, but I'm a little weary of things I haven't proven before.

 <IFRAME SRC="header.htm" style="border: 0px;" width="100%" height="27px" scrolling="no">
        <LAYER SRC="header.htm" style="border: 0px;" width="100%" height="27px" scrolling="no">
        </LAYER>
    </IFRAME>

My theory (which seems to work so far) is that browsers supporting the IFRAME tag will pick it up and display appropriately. Any browser that does not support IFRAME will skip over it and use the LAYER tag.

The big question... is this stable and/or reliable?
Is there a better way to do this without using FRAMES pages?
Thanks very much!
Stryker

[Statica]

It will work fine for pretty much all browsers by nesting iframe and layer tags. I've been using it for a while now with no negative effects.

[Stryker]

Thanks Statica... I appreciate the response.
I'll stick with it and see if anyone reports any issues with it.
Thanks again,
Stryker

[Statica]

You're welcome. Just as an addendum, you might be interested to note that the Layer tag is deprecated. IFRAME is the standard as per DOM 2 specifications. Any IE based browser or Gecko browser (Firefox etc) recognize IFRAME. However, including the Layer tag will ensure that users of the older Netscape browsers can still view content.

Addendum: you can view the DOM reference here: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domr...ame_ref13.html