HTML:- Part-5

             Session 5

ØMaking Frames

ØAdding frame border

ØUsing Special Tag

1. Making Frames

ØFrameset documents have a different structure than normal HTML documents.

ØA regular HTML documents has a head element and a body element, but frameset document has a

head element and a frameset element.

ØCOLS attribute example:

Ø<FRAMESET COLS =”25%, 75%”>

ØROWS attribute example:

Ø<FRAMESET ROWS=”34%, 33%, 33%”>

2. Adding Frame Borders

ØFRAMEBORDER attribute determines if there is a separator border between the frame and its

neighboring frames.

ØBy specifying <FRAME SRC=”document1.html” FRAMEBORDER=”0”> you can remove the

border.

Ø<FRAME SRC=”document.html” BORDERCOLOR=”YELLOW”>

ØAbove code with create a frame with yellow color border.

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ØTo set Margin height MARGINHEIGHT attribute is used to determine number of pixels between

the frame’s content and the frame top and bottom edges.

ØExample:

Ø<FRAME SRC=”document2.html” MARGINHEIGHT=”100” MARGINWIDTH=”200”>

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ØBy default scroll bars only appear in page as and when it is necessary. You can choose to have

scroll bars appear or force them never to appear.

ØExample:

Ø<FRAME SRC=”document.html” SCROLLING=”YES”>

Ø<FRAME SRC=”document.html” SCROLLING=”NO”>

Ø<FRAME SRC=”document.html” SCROLLING=”AUTO”>

3. Using Special Target Names

ØThere are 4 pre-defined names that can be targeted by an anchor. These 4 targets have a special

meanings and all this pre-defined names start with an underscore (_) sign.

ØThe Blank Target

ØBlank target attribute is specified by “_blank”. By specifying TARGET=”_blank”, you can cause

the document to be loaded into a new window.

ØExample:

Ø<A HREF=”document.html” TARGET=”_blank”>My Document</A>

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ØThe Parent Target

ØFor parent target frame “_parent” attribute is used. Parent target name refers to the parent frameset.

ØExample: <A HREF=”document.html” TARGET=”_parent”>My Document</A>

ØThe Self Target

ØSelf Target represents “_self” attributes that loads document into the current frame.

ØExample:

Ø<A HREF=”document.html” TARGET=”_self”>My Document</A>

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ØThe Top Target

Ø“_top” attribute is used for targeting top frames, most useful target names is”_top”, which removes

frames altogether.

ØExample:

Ø<H HREF=”document.html” TARGET=”_top”>My Document</A>

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ØUsing the INLINE Frame element to Create Inline Frames.

ØInline Frame element is a brand new part of HTML 4.0 that can show a separate document as part

of a page.

ØInline Frame elements uses the <IFRAME> and </IFRAME> tags.