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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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Inline Frames

To this point, our discussion has centered on frames that are defined as part of a frameset. A frameset, in turn, replaces the conventional <body> of a document and supplies content to the user via its contained frames.

The HTML 4 and XHTML standards let you do things a bit differently: you can also define a frame that exists within a conventional document, displayed as part of that document's text flow. These frames behave a lot like inline images, which is why they are known as inline frames.

All the popular browsers support inline frames.

The <iframe> Tag

Define an inline frame with the <iframe> tag. The <iframe> tag is not used within a <frameset> tag. Instead, it appears anywhere in your document that an <img> tag might appear. The <iframe> tag defines a rectangular region within the document in which the browser displays a separate document, including scroll bars and borders.

Use the src attribute with <iframe> to specify the URL of the document that occupies the inline frame. All of the other, optional attributes for the <iframe> tag, including name, class, frameborder, id, longdesc, marginheight, marginwidth, name, scrolling, style, and title, behave exactly like the corresponding attributes for the <frame> ...

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