Key Points
Frames are not XHTML-compatible, but many people still use them for page layout.
A <frameset> tag contains one or more <frame> tags that define a default HTML file that appears within it.
In a frameset document, use a document type of HTML 4.01 Frameset, like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">.The frameset document does not have a regular <body> section; it contains only the frame descriptions.
In the <frameset> tag, define the column widths and/or row heights. Use a number for a specific number of pixels, or use an asterisk (*) to specify that the size will vary with the size of the browser window. For example,
<frameset cols="100,*" rows="*,200">.To provide an alternative ...
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