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Frame attributes determine
the frame name, source file, margins, scrolling, and resizing for individual frames
within a frameset.
What a user sees as a single
webpage with two frames is actually three seperate files: the frameset file
and two files containing the content that appears inside the frames.
A frameset is a file that
defines a webpage with frsmes A frameset stores information about the size and
location of the page's frames along with the names of the files that should
be loaded as the content for each of the frames.
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Frame Attributes
- Frame
- Determines the name of the current
frame to use for hyperlink target and scripting references.
- Src (Source)
- Determines the Source of the current
frame to use for hyperlink target and scripting references.
- Scroll
- Determines whether scroll bars
appear when tghere is not enough room to display the cotent of the current
frame.
- No Resize
- Makes the current frame nonresizable
and prevents the users from dragging the frame borders.
- Borders
- Controls the border of the current
frame.
- Border Color
- Sets the border color for al borders
adjacent to the current frame.
- Margin Width
- Sets the width in pixels of the
left and right margins (the space between the frame border and the content).
- Margin Height
- Sets the height in pixels of the
top and bottom margins (the space between the frame borders and the content).
Frameset Attributes
- Borders
- Controls the border of
the current frame.
- Border Width
- Specifies the width of
the borders in the current frameset.
- Border Color
- Sets the border color
for al borders adjacent to the current frame.
- Value
- Specifies the size of
the selected row or column.
- Units
- Specifies whether the
selected row or column is a fixed size (pixels), a percentage of the browser
window, or expands or contracts to fill the remaining space in the window
(relative).
- RowCol Selection
- Identifies the selected
row or column.
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Frames divide web pages
so that different files can be loaded into defined areas on the same page. Frames
commonly define a navigation area and a content area for a page.
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Frameset Attributes control
the dimensions of the frames and the color and width of the borders between
frames.
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Splitting an existing frame
creates a new frameset inside the current frameset file.
A frameset inside another
frameset is called a nested frameset.
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- Use a link in one frame
to change the content in anoter frame
- _blank
loads the linked file into a new, unnamed browser window.
_parent loads
the linked file into the parent frameset or window of the frame that contains
the link.
_self loads the
linked file into the same frame or window as the link
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You can specify how frame
and frameset borders appear on the page. When you specify border options for
a frame, the coresponding frameset option is overridden.
Border attibutes: Frames
- Borders
- Controls the border of
the current frames.
- Border Color
- Sets a border color for
all borders adjacent to the current frame.
Border attributes: Framesets
- Borders
- Controls the border of
the current frameset.
- Border Color
- Sets a border color for
all borders adjacent to the current frameset.
- Border Width
- Specifies the width of
the borders in the current frameset.
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