name (highly recommended): give each frame a unique name.On a frame-by-frame basis you can turn off the user’s ability to scroll that frame, which can be very useful. scrolling: Do you want users to be able to scroll this frame? In the case of your navigation, maybe not.So just having noresize is the same as defining noresize="noresize". Notice with this attribute there is no ="". This can cause layout issues so it is usually a good idea to prevent that behaviour. noresize: If you don’t specify this then users will be able to resize your frames at will.If you stored your individual files in the same folder as your frameset HTML document, then you’re fine just to use the file name src (required): the URL to load in the frame, or the file name.The tag (which has no closing tag) can take various attributes: So the first tag relates to the first percentage defined, for example. The FRAME TagĮach frame is then defined in the same left-to-right approach.
In today’s technological environment where screen sizes vary massively, if you’re going to use HTML Frames, please use percentages. You can use absolute numbers – so cols="200,600" would divide up a screen which is 800pixels wide into one frame of 200 pixels and one frame of 800 pixels. So the first percentage is the first ‘strip’ and the second belongs to the second ‘strip’. This means we are dividing the page into vertical strips.įor the cols attribute you are working left-to-right. As in the tutorial about HTML Tables, cols is short for columns. The tag pair define how your frames will be laid out. To get frames to work you need a combination of tags and tags.
For simplicity store it in the same folder as the files you just created. You need to now create a third file which will govern your layout.
You must first create an individual file for each of your boxes – or as I will refer to them now – frames. I am trying out HTML Frames for the first time! Please let me know what you think Navigation Link 3 Welcome to My Test Website Let’s say you want to create a site with a side navigation which is 25% of the screen width, and the content is the remaining 75%, like this: Navigation Link 1 Doesn’t matter how – just create a visualisation of your layout. You could use a graphics package, a wireframing web app, or just a pencil or paper.
Before we jump into code you have to decide how to lay out your screen.