Frame Contents
A frame document contains no displayable content, except perhaps a
message for nonframes-enabled browsers. Instead, <frame> tags inside 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>, 11.5]
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.
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—if your frame
document calls for three columns and you provide only two frames, for
example. Orphan frames remain empty, and you cannot put content into
them later, even if they have a target name or id for display redirection. [The name and id attributes,
11.4.1.2]
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