Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

<FRAME> — NN 2 IE 3 HTML 4

Synopsis

<FRAME>

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The FRAME element defines properties of an individual window space that is some fractional portion of the entire browser window. A FRAME element must be defined within the context of a FRAMESET element. It is the FRAMESET that defines the row and column arrangement of a related group of frames.

A browser treats a frame as a separate browser window within the browser application’s window. As such, each frame window can load its own content, independent of other frames. Although no attributes of the FRAME element are required, assigning a value to the NAME attribute is highly recommended if you have forms or links whose returned or destination document is to be displayed in a different frame. Scripting among multiple frames also benefits greatly from names assigned to frames because it makes references to those frames (and their contents) more easily understandable to someone reading the script code.

Example

<FRAMESET COLS="150,*">
    <FRAME NAME="navbar" SRC="nav.html">
    <FRAME NAME="main" SRC="page1.html">
</FRAMESET>

Object Model Reference

NN

[window.]frameName

[window.]frames[i]

IE

[window.]frameName

[window.]frames[i]

[window.]document.all.frameID

Attributes

BORDERCOLOR	FRAMEBORDER	LANGUAGE	NAME	STYLE
CLASS	HEIGHT	LONGDESC	NORESIZE	TITLE
DATAFLD	ID	MARGINHEIGHT	SCROLLING	WIDTH
DATASRC	LANG	MARGINWIDTH	SRC