February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
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The iframe element is part of
the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD. As such, it is also
included in the Frameset DTD, but it is not a frameset-related element.
It is supported by standards-compliant browsers. It is however
deprecated, and the preferred strict alternative is to use the object element instead, its type attribute explicitly set to text/html, and its data attribute set to the URL of the external
document. Inline frames do not work in Netscape 4, but that accounts for
a less than .5% of users as of this writing.
The iframe element places an
external HTML document on a web page in a scrolling window. The src attribute provides the URL of the external
document. The width and height attributes provide the dimensions of
the floating frame. Figure
12-10 shows the resulting inline frame specified in this markup
example.
<body bgcolor="black" text="white"> <h1>Inline (Floating) Frames</h1> <p><iframe src="list.html" width="200" height="100" align="left">Your browser does not support inline frames. Read the list <a href="list. html">here</a>.</iframe></p> <p>Consectetuer adipiscing elit. Sed eu nibh eget magna dictum egestas... </p> </body>
Figure 12-10. Inline (floating) frame