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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 content levelIntermediate to advanced
680 pages
21h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The <noframes> Tag

A frame document has no <body>. It must not because the browser ignores any frame tags if it finds any <body> content before it encounters the first <frameset> tag. A frame document, therefore, is all but invisible to any nonframes-capable browser. The <noframes> tag gives some relief to the frames-disabled.

You should use the <noframes> tag only within the outermost <frameset> tag of a frame document. Content between the <noframes> tag and its required end tag (</noframes>) is not displayed by any frames-capable browser but is displayed in lieu of other contents in the frame document by browsers that do not handle frames. The content of the <noframes> tag can be any normal body content, including the <body> tag itself.

Although this tag is optional, experienced authors typically include the <noframes> tag in their frame documents with content that warns nonframes-capable browser users that they're missing the show. And smart authors give those users a way out, if not direct access to the individual documents that make up the frame document contents.

Remember our first frame example in this chapter? Figure 11-5 shows what happens when that ...

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