HTML FRAMES - Joannacel Paraiso

HTML FRAMES

• With Frames, you can display more than one Web page in the same browser window.

FRAMES

• Each HTML document is called a frame, and each frame is independent of the others.
• The disadvantages of using frames are:
  *The Web developer must keep track HTML documents
  *It is difficult to print the entire page.

THE FRAMESET TAG

• 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
• The "frame" tag defines what HTML document to put into each frame.
• In the example below 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 document “frame_a.htm” is put into the first column, and the HTML document “frame_b.htm” is put into the second column.

BASIC NOTES-USEFUL TIPS

• If a frame has visible borders, the user can resize it by dragging the border. To prevent a user from doing this, you can add noresize-“noresize” to the frame tag.
• Add the "no frames" tag for browser that do not support frames.
• You cannot use the "body""/body" tags together with the "frameset""/frameset" tags.
• However, if you will add "noframes" tag for browser that do not support frames, you will enclose the text in body /body tags.

Frameset Attributes Explained

• Cols-“150,150” – it tells the browser to create columns (vertical setup) of 2. The left column’s width is 150 pixels, while the other is 850 pixels.
• Frameborder-No or Yes – defines whether to make the frameborder dividing the windows become visible or not.
• border-“n” – when the value for frameborder is YES, you can set the thickness of the border in pixels by entering a number to the value.
• Framespacing-“n” – defines the spacing between the 2 framesets in the window. The expected value here is a number.
• Bordercolor-“rrggbb” – applies color to the border when it is turned on. Replace “rrggbb” with hexadecimal color value.
• Name-“anyname” – assigns a name to the frame on the left (if vertical) or top frame (if horizontal) in the frameset definition.
• Noresise – tells the browser to lock the border.
• Scrolling-“YES or NO” – controls whether the scrollbar is turned on or not. The default is NO. When turned on, and if the page of the document is long, the scrollbar will become visible.
• Scr-“file.html” – the document you’re calling to load in the window. SRC is short for source file.