![]() ![]() So I’ve decided to provide some info on frame design for the novice or intermediate Web designer - some how-tos, along with some observations, caveats and warnings along the way. Or maybe you’ve come up with a concept for a design that actually works better in a frame (unlikely as that sounds, it does happen).įrames have their uses, infrequent though they are. Perhaps you’ve got a client, or an aunt, who is mad for frames and insists you use a frame-based design. Perhaps your business site uses frames and you’re constrained to operate within company parameters. There are times when a knowledge of frame design is necessary, however. It’s a few years old, but still pertinent. Note that while HTML 4 includes frames as part of the official code, HTML 4.01 Strict does not support frames, relying instead on style sheets.įor a nice compilation of the pros and cons of frames, see Tom Chaplin’s SitePoint article on the subject. The percentage of framed sites out there is dropping steadily, especially now that more and more designers are moving towards CSS-based design, which essentially renders the entire concept of frames irrelevant. It’s not a necessity to learn frame design: many professional Web designers have designed hundreds of elegant, functional sites without a single frame and will go right on designing without giving frames a thought. Most people who have come late to Web design or are just learning it now get told, “Frames? Forget ’em! You won’t design a page in frames, they’re hard to get right, and it’s a waste of time for you to learn them.” Now, there’s plenty of truth in this statement. I will say that in my experience on the Web, 90% of the sites that still use frames don’t use them well I’m still a bit surprised when I find a site that works better with a frame than not. The debate on frame usage has been raging for eight years now, and while most experts come down solidly against their use in most instances, I won’t continue the debate here. We hated them when Netscape first offered them up around 1995 we deplored them when they became all the rage for a few short years we wish they would go away and never darken our displays again. So, this link will direct the frame, and the content will be displayed on the same frame.Ah, frames. ![]() For the second frame, we have assigned a name for it, and in the menu.html, we have set the target as the frame name for every link. The first frame will list out the menu in the form of hyperlinks. Here In the frameset tag, we have divided two frames into a width of 30% for the first frame and the remaining all width for the second frame. We will be using a name attribute with a frame tag. Output: Here, we have used the cols attribute over the frameset tag to divide the frames horizontally, and the height has been mentioned in percentage.Įxample #3 – Navigating different frames using linksįor this example, three files, frame1.html, frame2.html, and frame3.html, are the same. ![]() There are Four files frame1, frame2,frame3, and main. Output: Here, we have used the cols attribute to specify them as a column, and the width of each frame has been set to 50%. ![]()
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