HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Frame Contents

A frame document contains no displayable content, except perhaps a message for non-frames-enabled browsers. Instead, <frame> tags inside the one or more <frameset> tags (which encapsulate the contents of a frame document) provide URL references to the individual documents that occupy each frame. [<noframes>]

The <frame> Tag

The <frame> tag appears only within a <frameset>. Use it to set, via its associated src attribute, the URL of the document content that initially gets displayed inside the respective frame.

<frame>

Function:

Defines a single frame in a <frameset>

Attributes:

bordercolor (, ), class, frameborder, id, longdesc, marginheight, marginwidth, name, noresize, scrolling, src, style, title

End tag:

</frame>; rarely included in HTML

Contains:

Nothing

Used in:

frameset_content

Browsers place the frame contents into the frameset column by column, from left to right, and then row by row, from top to bottom. Accordingly, the sequence and number of <frame> tags inside the <frameset> tag are important.

The browser displays empty frames for <frame> tags that do not have src attributes. It also displays empty frames if the <frameset> tag calls for more frames than the corresponding <frame> tags define; for instance, if your frame document calls for three columns and you provide ...