Frames

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Frames allow to divide the browser into multiple scrollable windows, each of which containts a separate HTML document. It lets design more effective HTML layouts by allowing place elements anywhere on the screen by providing additional means of indicating divisions between them.

The browser is divide into sections called windows, and each windows are also called frame, and this display the content of separate HTML document. The document that controls the layout and organization of your frames is called a frameset.

Targeting: Browsers usually replace the current page with the linked one. The designer get to choose the frame in which the linked page will open. Frameset layout fixes a page of links in one frame and display content in another frame, in which, the content of the navegation frame remains static and the content of the other frame chances

Important: "Frames are not recommended as a part of W3C standarrd because the web developer must keep track of more HTML documents, and it is difficult to print the entire page."

Here are some general information about frames:

• Noresize is an attribute that prevents the change of a frame's dimensions.
• Navegation bar is a set of links to the home page and main sections of a Web site that appears on every page.
• A file specifying the organization of frame file within the browser windows is called Frameset.
• A window within a frameset that display a separate HTML document is called frame.
• Target is a method of setting the location where a link page opens.
• In a Web page laid out with frames, each frame displays the contents of a separate Web document.
• <base /> tag is use to created a global setting to target a different frame for all of a page's links.
• By clicking the Refresh or Reload button in the browserthe page in a frameset can be refreshed.
• Source attributes ( src ) in a frame tag defines the location for the frame content.
• Three HTML files would you need in order to create a frameset that displays two frames.
• <frame /> tag cannot be used within <frameset>...</frameset> tags.

Page Modified by: Christian Lopez, November 2, 2009