Practical Web Technologies

8.1. Controlling frames I

8.1.1. A classic dynamic menu with swapping frames

One of the advantages of using frames is that individual pages can be organized (or networked together) to form a larger and more complex application. A typical application (see Chapter 1, ex01-17.htm) is to divide the screen into two frames (usually left and right) or more and build a menu (or navigation bar) system. The left frame, for example, stores the menu items. When one of the menu items is pressed, a corresponding page is sent to the right frame. Many organizations use this technique to introduce their departments and a lot of businesses advertise their products in the same way on the Web. This is a static XHTML menu technique and one restriction is that you ...