Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

<IFRAME> — NN n/a IE 3 HTML 4

Synopsis

<IFRAME>...</IFRAME>

End Tag: Required

An IFRAME element creates an inline frame within the natural flow of a document’s content. The frame is a rectangular space into which you may load any other HTML document (or use scripts to dynamically write content to the space). If you assign a value to the NAME attribute of an IFRAME element, you may supply that name as the value of a TARGET attribute of A, FORM, or other element that lets you define a target for a destination or returned document.

Although an IFRAME element’s rectangular space begins immediately following the content that comes before it (including in a line of text), all content following the end tag starts on the next line following the frame rectangle. Text leading up to the IFRAME element can be aligned in the same ways that text can be aligned around an IMG or OBJECT element.

Content between the start and end tags is ignored by browsers that support the IFRAME element. All others display such content as inline HTML content (as a way to let users know what they’re missing and perhaps provide a link to related information). The Navigator 4 element that comes closest to the functionality and behavior of the IFRAME element is the ILAYER element.

Example

<IFRAME SRC="quotes.html" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=90>
<A HREF="quotes.html" TARGET="new" STYLE="color:darkred">
 Click here to see the latest quotes </A>
</IFRAME>

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.frameName

Attributes

ALIGN