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

Nested Frames

By nesting one <frameset> within another, you can create rather complex frame layouts. For example, the document shown in Figure 21.5 and listed in Figure 21.6 has a total of nine frames. A cols frameset is used to split each row of the rows frameset into three pieces.

Figure 21.5 This window contains nine frames, some of which are nothing more than blank pages with custom background tiles.

Figure 21.6 To create Figure 21.5, I used three horizontal <frameset>s within a vertical <frameset>.

Figure 21.7 lists the HTML for all nine of the separate Web pages shown in Figure 21.5. The corners and side frames contain blank HTML documents, showing nothing more than specially designed background tiles. The top frame is a permanent title graphic, and the bottom frame is a navigation bar similar to the one shown in the previous example. The net effect is to surround the middle frame within a sort of "picture frame" border. Figure 21.8 shows thumbnails of all the background tiles and other graphics incorporated into the pages.

Figure 21.7 These are the nine separate HTML documents shown in Figure 21.5 and referred to in Figure 21.6.

Figure 21.8 To create the border effect in Figures 21.5 and 21.10, I designed several custom background tiles and matching title graphics.

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