tags which divide the window into rows and columns. Some disadvantages are that smaller devices may not support frames well due to screen size, and the back button may not work as expected. Frames are created by specifying rows or columns attributes on and using tags to define each section. The target attribute is used to specify where links should load content."> tags which divide the window into rows and columns. Some disadvantages are that smaller devices may not support frames well due to screen size, and the back button may not work as expected. Frames are created by specifying rows or columns attributes on and using tags to define each section. The target attribute is used to specify where links should load content.">
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Frames allow dividing a browser window into multiple sections to load separate HTML documents. Frames are defined using <frameset> tags which divide the window into rows and columns. Some disadvantages are that smaller devices may not support frames well due to screen size, and the back button may not work as expected. Frames are created by specifying rows or columns attributes on <frameset> and using <frame> tags to define each section. The target attribute is used to specify where links should load content.

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Frames allow dividing a browser window into multiple sections to load separate HTML documents. Frames are defined using <frameset> tags which divide the window into rows and columns. Some disadvantages are that smaller devices may not support frames well due to screen size, and the back button may not work as expected. Frames are created by specifying rows or columns attributes on <frameset> and using <frame> tags to define each section. The target attribute is used to specify where links should load content.

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Data Structures 

and Algorithms

By

M.Rajanikanth

Lecturer

DRG GOVT Degree college


HTML FRAMES
HTML frames are used to divide your browser window into multiple
sections where each section can load a separate HTML document. A
collection of frames in the browser window is known as a frameset. The
window is divided into frames in a similar way the tables are organized:
into rows and columns.

Disadvantages of Frames

There are few drawbacks with using frames, so it's never recommended
to use frames in your webpages:
Some smaller devices cannot cope with frames often because their
screen is not big enough to be divided up.
Sometimes your page will be displayed differently on different
computers due to different screen resolution.
The browser's back button might not work as the user hopes.
There are still few browsers that do not support frame technology.

Creating Frames

To use frames on a page we use <frameset> tag instead of <body> tag.


The <frameset> tag defines how to divide the window into frames. The
rows attribute of <frameset> tag defines horizontal frames and cols
attribute defines vertical frames. Each frame is indicated by <frame>
tag and it defines which HTML document shall open into the frame.
Example
Following is the example to create three horizontal frames:
This will produce following result:

Example
Let's put above example as follows, here we replaced rows attribute by
cols and changed their width. This will create all the three frames
vertically:
This will produce following result:
The <frameset> Tag Attributes

Following are important attributes of the <frameset> tag:

Attribute Description
Browser Support for Frames
If a user is using any old browser or any browser which does not support
frames then <noframes> element should be displayed to the user.
So you must place a <body> element inside the <noframes> element
because the <frameset>element is supposed to replace the <body>
element, but if a browser does not understand <frameset> element then it
should understand what is inside the <body> element which iscontained
in a <noframes> element.
You can put some nice message for your user having old browsers. For
example Sorry!! yourbrowser does not support frames. as shown in the
above example.
Frame's name and target attributes
One of the most popular uses of frames is to place navigation bars in one
frame and then load
main pages into a separate frame.
Let's see following example where a test.htm file has following code:
Here we have created two columns to fill with two frames. The first
frame is 200 pixels wide and
will contain the navigation menubar implemented by menu.htm file.
The second column fills in
remaining space and will contain the main part of the page and it is
implemented by main.htm
file. For all the three links available in menubar, we have mentioned
target frame as main_page,
so whenever you click any of the links in menubar, available link will
open in main_page.
Following is the content of menu.htm file
Now you can try to click links available in the left panel and see the
result. The target attribute can
also take one of the following values:
Option Description
_self Loads the page into the current frame.
_blank Loads a page into a new browser window.opening a new
window.
_parent Loads the page into the parent window, which in the case of a
single frameset is
the main browser window.
_top Loads the page into the browser window, replacing any current
frames.
targetframe Loads the page into a named targetframe.

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