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Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition
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Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

by Robert Eckstein, Stephen Spainhour
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
32h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Frames

HTML frames allow you to divide the main browser window into smaller subwindows (frames), each of which simultaneously displays a separate document. Links in one frame can open in another frame by specifying its name as a target. All of the latest graphical browsers support frames.

Two tags are used to make frame documents: <frameset> and <frame>. The <noframes> element provides alternative content for nonframes browsers. This is a requirement for HTML 4.0 and later and should contain functional content, or a link to it, instead of telling someone to get a browser that supports frames.

A frameset is simply a collection of frames that occupy the browser’s window. Column and row definition attributes for the <frameset> tag let you define the number and initial sizes for the columns and rows of frames. The <frame> tag defines what document—HTML or otherwise—initially goes into the frame, and is where you may give the frame a name to use for hypertext link targets.

Here is the HTML source for a simple frame document, which is displayed by the browser in Figure 4-1.

<html> <head> <title>Frames Layout</title> </head> <frameset rows="60%,*" cols="65%,20%,*"> <frame src="frame1.html"> <frame src="frame2.html"> <frame src="frame3.html" name="fill_me"> <frame scrolling=yes src="frame4.html"> <frame src="frame5.html"> <frame src="frame6.html"> <noframes> You are using a browser that does not support frames. <a href="frame1.html">Take this link</a> to the first HTML ...
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