Unit 5.4. Basic Frames

Frames and Framesets

A frame document is used to set up separate spaces on a page for separate HTML documents. Every frame document begins with a FRAMESET tag. This tag replaces the BODY tag you find in regular HTML documents. The frameset defines how the page will be divided up, and it can be described in terms of either horizontal units (rows) or vertical units (columns), but not both (you can obtain this latter effect by nesting a frameset inside another frameset, which is covered in Chapter 6, “Advanced HTML: Forms, Nested Tables, and Nested Frames.”)

To define a frameset in terms of rows, for example, you must first decide how big you’d like each row to be. The rows can be sized relatively (using the percentage of ...

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