HTML: A Guide to Hard-Coding
Using Frames
I'm sure by now you have seen many pages that use frames. Some pages use them quite successfully, while others do not. Some pages use them and you might not even be aware the page is made with frames. However they are used, they are still at the center of a lot of controversy. The controversy centers around the fact that you can, with frames, link to another web site and have that site appear within your own. This, of course, is very attractive to advertisers, but it isn't really altogether ethical.
We don't need to worry about that though because this page will show you how to build frames without taking credit for someone else's work.
Frames are created with the <frameset> tag. This tag creates a frame "shell," in which you will place other whole pages.
Look at a simple page with frames.
Some things that you need to notice:
- The opening tag is <frameset>. This tag creates the shell.
- An attribute of the <frameset> tag is "cols." This stands for columns. You can also use "rows," but you cannot use them together. I'll explain later.
"*,*"
"50%,50%"
"300,300"which would have accomplished the same thing--two columns of equal width.
- If you have two columns, you need to have two <frame src="name.html">, one for each frame.
- Please notice also that there are no <body> tags in the index.html document. The tag <frameset> takes the place of the body. There really isn't a body in a frames document. The body comes from the source of the frame.
When you view this page in the browser, this is what you should see:
All you really have is a bar separating the two sections. If "hello.html" were a long document and could not fit in the frame, the browser would have automatically added scroll bars.
