Frames How to Create Frames in HTML Dr. Sanders

Why Frames? Frames allow you to have more than a single window on the screen at the same time. –You can keep a menu on the screen and bring up different information. –Able to create Web sites that change dynamically with student input. Requires JavaScript

Frames Frame are trickier than tables, and you cannot use Composer to create frames. Other tools such as PageMill and DreamWeaver make it easy to create frames. A single page with frames has at least three HTML files: –Frameset file –Frame 1 and Frame 2 files

Frameset The frameset file is an invisible one that places the frames where you want on a page. Here’s the code for a simple set.

Frame Arrangement Frame 2 Frame 1

Frame Order Frameset Frame 2 Frame 1 Links in the frames will replace the current frame with the linked frame unless specified otherwise. Wombats

Replaced Frame Frame 2 Wombats

Nested Frames Arranging both columns and rows require a nested frameset:

Nested Frames 45% for top row 85% for first column 15% for second column 15% for first column 85% for second column

Parameters frameborder = “no” [Default=yes] border=“0” [Default=“1” may have higher number”] bordercolor=“white” noresize [No values] scrolling= “no” [auto, yes options] marginwidth =“50” [value in pixels] marginheight =“50” [value in pixels]

Parameter examples