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Caution Use frames with care. Too many of them can make it very tough for the users as
they tend to get lost.
Frame has the following properties:
z It loads the URL independently of other frames.
z It can be accessed via the name given to it and so allows HTML contents to be targeted by
other URL’s.
z It resizes itself dynamically in response to changes in the size of the visible area.
10.4.1 Tags for the Frame
There are two major tags available for the use of frames. We will discuss them in detail below.
Frameset
The <frameset> tag replaces the <body> element in frameset documents. It defines how to
divide the window into frames. Each frameset defines a set of rows or columns. If you define
frames by using rows then horizontal frames are created else with columns vertical farms are
created. The values of the rows/columns indicate the amount of screen area each row/column
will occupy. Each frame is created by <frame> tag and it defines which HTML document to put
into the frame.
Let us now illustrate the use of the frameset and frame tags.
<html>
<head>
<title>Frames example</title>
</head>
<frameset rows=”10%,80%,10%”>
<frame src=”/html/top_frame.htm” />
<frame src=”/html/main_frame.htm” />
<frame src=”/html/bottom_frame.htm” />
<body>
Frames
</body>
</frameset>
</html>
Now create three HTML files called top_frame.htm, main_frame.htm and bottom_frame.htm to be
loaded into three frames with some content.
Following are important attributes of <frameset> tag:
z cols: specifies how many columns are contained in the frameset and the size of each
column. You can specify the width of each column in one of four ways:
Absolute values in pixels.
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