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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition
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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition

by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
21h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Frame Tags

You need to know only two tags in order to create a frame document: <frameset> and <frame>. In addition, the HTML 4 and XHTML standards provide the <iframe> tag, which you may use to create inline, or floating, frames, and the <noframes> tag to handle browsers that cannot handle frames.

A frameset is simply the collection of frames that make up the browser's window. Column- and row-definition attributes for the <frameset> tag let you define the number of and initial sizes for the columns and rows of frames. The <frame> tag defines which document—HTML or otherwise—initially goes into the frame within those framesets and is where you may give the frame a name to use for document hyperlinks.

Here is the HTML source we used to generate Figure 11-1:

<html>
<head>
<title>Frames Layout</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="60%,*" cols="65%,20%,*">
  <frame src="frame1.html">
  <frame src="frame2.html">
  <frame src="frame3.html" name="fill_me">
  <frame scrolling=yes src="frame4.html">
  <frame src="frame5.html">
  <frame src="frame6.html" id="test">
  <noframes>
    Sorry, this document can be viewed only with a
    frames-capable browser.
    <a href = "frame1.html">Take this link</a>
    to the first HTML document in the set.
  </noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
A simple six-panel frame layout

Figure 11-1. A simple six-panel frame layout

Notice a few things in the simple frame example and its rendered image (Figure 11-1). First, like tables, the browser ...

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