Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Put Your HTML Page Online Today
  • I. Your First Web Page
  • Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
  • Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
  • Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
  • Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
  • II. Web Page Text
  • Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
  • Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
  • Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
  • Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
  • III. Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
  • Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
  • Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
  • IV. Web Page Design
  • Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
  • Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
  • Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
  • Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
  • V. Dynamic Web Pages
  • Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
  • Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
  • Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
  • Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
  • VI. Building a Web Site
  • Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
    • What Are Frames?
    • Creating a Frameset Document
    • The <frame /> Tag
    • Linking Between Frames and Windows
    • Nested Frames
    • Margins, Borders, and Scrolling
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
  • Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
  • Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
  • VII. Appendixes
  • A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
  • B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
  • C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
  • D. HTML Character Entities

What Are Frames?

At first glance, Figure 21.1 may look like an ordinary Web page, but it is actually two separate HTML pages, both displayed in the same Netscape Navigator window. Each of these pages is displayed in its own frame, separated by a horizontal bar.

Figure 21.1 Frames allow more than one Web page to be displayed at once.

A frame is a rectangular region within the browser window that displays a Web page, alongside other pages in other frames.

The main advantage of using frames becomes apparent when a reader clicks one of the links in the top frame of Figure 21.1. The top frame will not change at all in this example, but a new page will be loaded and displayed in the bottom frame, as in Figure 21.2.

Figure 21.2 Clicking Facts & Forecasts in Figure 21.1 brings up a new bottom page, but leaves the top frame the same.

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