Frame Targets
The <frame> tag includes an attribute that allows you to name the frame. A hypertext link in another frame can load
its referenced document into the named frame by using the target
attribute in the <a> tag. For example:
<frame src="frame.html" name="display_frame">
describes a frame that displays frame.html and is named
display_frame. If another frame or window (or even the same frame)
contains this link:
<a href="file.html" target="display_frame">
and this link is selected, the file file.html replaces
the file frame.html in the frame named display_frame.
This is the basic use of targeting frames. A useful example is a
book with a table of contents. The table of contents is loaded into
a frame that occupies a narrow column on the left side of the
browser window. The table of contents contains a list of links to
each chapter in the book. Each chapter link targets the frame
that occupies the rest of the window. You can then view the chapters
while keeping the table of contents available for further navigation.
It can be tedious to specify a target for every hyperlink in your documents,
especially when most are targeted at the same window or frame.
To alleviate this problem, you can use the target attribute
for the <base> tag in the <head> of your document.
Adding a target to the <base> tag sets the default target for
every hypertext link in the document that does not contain an explicit
target attribute.
There are a couple of things to note about the use of targets and ...
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