7.4 iframe Element
You’ve learned how to display an image in the body of a web page and also in the tab area at the top of the browser window. In this section, you learn to display an image in a frame that’s embedded within the browser window. Specifically, you’ll use an iframe (short for inline frame) element to create a browsing context. A browsing context is an area within a web page that can display an embedded web document, where a web document is something with a URL (i.e., a web page or a stored image).
Instead of loading an entire web page within an iframe’s browsing context, it’s more common to load a stored image into a browsing context. For example, in the Art Exhibit web page in FIGURE 7.4, an iframe element is used to display ...
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