modal-dialog or div overlay over frameset?

Question

I have a html page with several frames in it (also nested framesets). I want to show an overlay over all these frames to show a modal box / light box. Is that possible?

I know, i know, framesets are not good to use, but I want to give it a try!

a modal dialog example

Saguache

Answer 1

Unfortunately completely impossible.

The only HTML Element that will overlay over a frameset frame.. is the drop down list portion of a Select list.

In a similar situation, I built the same "frameset" using iframes. It was the only way to overlay over the frames.

Quasijudicial

do you mean that you nested a frameset in an iframe in your case? – Saguache

I rebuilt the frameset/frames using iframes. e.g. the page that originally defined a frameset with frames it now only contains iframes. I had to ditch the frameset entirely. – Quasijudicial