Frames

A frameset is a group of pages that display on a single page in different places. An example would be a navbar on the left, a main window at the right, and another window at the top. Often times, this makes sites easier to read. But it can also make them harder to follow.

Targeting is the practice of coding a specific page to load inside a specific frame. For example, you may have 3 pages with a framed index page. You could code the link for Page 1 to load in the main frame by setting the main frame as its target.

Frames are no longer recommended by the W3C. Partly this is because it's easy to "get lost" in frames, but also because through the use of tables and divisions, one can easily arrange things on a page to look nicer, be easier to read, and easier to print. Making a page this way, instead of in frames, makes it easier to bookmark the exact page you wish to view later.

Questions:

• 10. A navigation bar is a frame containing links to the other pages on a site that has frames.
• 11. A frameset is a group of pages that display on a single page in different places.
• 12. A frame is a portion of a window in which a page loads as part of a frameset.
• 13. A target is the frame in which a given page is coded to load.
• 14. Noresize is an attribute that prevents the change of a frame's dimensions.
• 15. In a web page laid out with frames, each frame displays the contents of a seperate Web document.
• 16. The base tag is used to create a global setting to target a different frame for all of a page's links.
• 17. Click the Refresh button in your browser to refresh the pages of a frameset.
• 18. The "src" attribute defines the location for the frame contents.
• 19. You would need three HTML files to create a frameset that displays two frames.
• 20. The noframes tag cannot be used within frameset tags.