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Understanding frames
About frames
Frames divide a web browser window into sections that contain separate pages. Using frames, you can make your
page layout more visually interesting and help viewers navigate in your website. Since the content of each frame is a
separate page (and separate file) with its own URL, it can be changed and scrolled independently of the pages in other
frames. For example, you can use frames to create an onscreen navigation aid or table of contents that remains visible
in one frame while the viewer scrolls through the page in another frame.
Note: Frame sets don't work well with web search engines because they have no content. For this reason, it's a good idea
to not use a frame set for your index page. Also, you can't set bookmarks in the browser for frame-based web pages
because the URLs map to the frame set rather than the desired pages.
Guidelines for frames
You need at least three HTML documents to create a two-frame page layout: one document for the frame set, which
holds the frame structure, and two documents for the visible pages of content. The frame set is the master document
that defines the size and location of the frames and contains the URL reference links to the content pages. You design
the content pages to fit or scroll within specific frames in the frame set.
A frame set document with two frames. The left frame contains a navigation page, and the right frame contains a page that's linked from the
navigation page.
When working with frames, keep in mind the following browser limitations:
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Browsers tend to offset the content of a page from the edge of their main display area and from the inner edges of
frames by a few pixels. This behavior can cause sizing problems. To help solve this problem, you can set the
margins of the frame set document to zero. (See "To specify page margins" on page 159.)
Nesting frame set documents within the frames of other frame sets is possible but can cause serious navigation
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problems.
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