Hour 16Multipage Layout with Frames

You’ve probably come into contact with web sites in which the browser window seemingly allowed you to move around between several different pages. The truth is that the browser really was allowing you to view several pages at once. An HTML feature known as frames allows you to divide the browser window into regions that contain separate web pages; each of these regions is known as a frame. Of course, from the user’s perspective, everything comes together to form a single window of web content, but there are separate pages at work.

Frames are roughly similar to tables (covered in Hour 11, “Using Tables to Organize and Lay Out Your Pages”) in that they allow you to arrange text and graphics into rows and ...

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