Most typically frames are used to have a menu in one frame,
and content in another frame.
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opened on the content page.
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Here is an example of a basic "index" frameset with
a menu on the left and content on the right.
<HTML>
<head>
</head>
<frameset rows="20%,*">
<frame src="title.HTML">
<frameset cols="30%,*">
<frame src="menu.HTML">
<frame src="content.HTML">
</frameset>
</HTML>
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Using frames, You can display more than one HTML document in the same browser window.
Each HTML document is called a frame, and each frame is independent of the others.
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The disadvantages of using frames are:
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- The web developer must keep track of more HTML documents
- It is difficult to print the entire page
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The Frameset Tag
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- The <frameset> tag defines how to divide the window into frames
- Each frameset defines a set of rows or columns
- The values of the rows/columns indicate the amount of screen area each row/column will occupy
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The Frame Tag
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- The <frame> tag defines what HTML document to put into each frame
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In the below example we have a frameset with two columns.
The first column is set to 25% of the width of the browser window.
The second column is set to 75% of the width of the browser window.
The HTML document "frame_x.htm" is put into the first column,
and the HTML document "frame_y.htm" is put into the second column:
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<frameset cols="25%,75%">
<frame src="frame_x.htm">
<frame src="frame_y.htm">
</frameset> |
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