HTML tutorials: HTML Frames

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

HTML Frames

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

Vertical frameset
This example demonstrates how to make a vertical frameset with three different documents.

Horizontal frameset
This example demonstrates how to make a horizontal frameset with three different documents.

(You can find more examples at the bottom of this page)
Frames

With 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.

The disadvantages of using frames are:

* The web developer must keep track of more HTML documents
* It is difficult to print the entire page

The Frameset Tag

* The 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

* The 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 "frame_a.htm" is put into the first column, and the HTML document "frame_b.htm" is put into the second column:

Note: The frameset column size value can also be set in pixels (cols="200,500"), and one of the columns can be set to use the remaining space (cols="25%,*").
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 tag.

Add the tag for browsers that do not support frames.<br /><br />Important: You cannot use the <body></body> tags together with the <frameset></frameset> tags! However, if you add a <noframes> tag containing some text for browsers that do not support frames, you will have to enclose the text in <body></body> tags! See how it is done in the first example below.<br />More Examples<br /><br />How to use the <noframes> tag<br />This example demonstrates how to use the <noframes> tag.<br /><br />Mixed frameset<br />This example demonstrates how to make a frameset with three documents, and how to mix them in rows and columns.<br /><br />Frameset with noresize="noresize"<br />This example demonstrates the noresize attribute. The frames are not resizable. Move the mouse over the borders between the frames and notice that you can not move the borders.<br /><br />Navigation frame<br />This example demonstrates how to make a navigation frame. The navigation frame contains a list of links with the second frame as the target. The file called "tryhtml_contents.htm" contains three links. The source code of the links:<br /><a href="frame_a.htm" target="showframe">Frame a</a><br><br /><a href="frame_b.htm" target="showframe">Frame b</a><br><br /><a href="frame_c.htm" target="showframe">Frame c</a><br />The second frame will show the linked document.<br /><br />Inline frame<br />This example demonstrates how to create an inline frame (a frame inside an HTML page).<br /><br />Jump to a specified section within a frame<br />This example demonstrates two frames. One of the frames has a source to a specified section in a file. The specified section is made with <a name="C10"> in the "link.htm" file.<br /><br />Jump to a specified section with frame navigation<br />This example demonstrates two frames. The navigation frame (content.htm) to the left contains a list of links with the second frame (link.htm) as a target. 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