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Framing the WebThe key to understanding how the A parent is a file which calls another file. Consider myframes1.html: <html> <head> <title>My Frames 1</title> </head> <frameset rows="*,2*> <frame src="white.html"> <frame src="red.html"> </frameset> </html> In this case, myframes.html is the parent of white.html and red.html. Any link within these child files targetted to Suppose a link in red.html calls green.html targetted
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Even with more complex frame layouts, the behavior still follows this pattern: <html> <head> <title>My Frames 1</title> </head> <frameset rows="*,2*> <frame src="white.html"> <frameset cols="3*,*"> <frame src="blue.html"> <frame src="red.html"> </frameset> </frameset> </html> Links in the child files white.html, blue.html, and
red.html targetted to
In many ways, this resembles Consider the following files, myframes2.html: <html> <head> <title>My Frames 2</title> </head> <frameset rows="*,2*> <frame src="white.html"> <frame src="myframes3.html"> </frameset> </html> and myframes3.html: <frameset cols="3*,*"> <frame src="blue.html"> <frame src="red.html"> </frameset> Notice that myframes3.html is a file with nothing but a frameset in it. In this case, myframes2.html is the parent of white.html and myframes3.html, whereas myframes3.html is the parent of blue.html and red.html. Now, any link in red.html or blue.html targetted to
* * * * Dan Brown (brown@greenonions.com) is an Online Developer for Ventana Communications Group. Besides writing and designing Web sites for Ventana and Netscape Press, Dan produces some of the multi-media CD-ROMs that come with Ventana books. Outside Web and technology development, Dan spends his time exploring online culture, information design, dogs, drumming and jazz. Dan graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Philosophy. His home page is (and don't say we didn't warn you): http://www.vmedia.com/dan. This tutorial originally appeared in the March 1996 issue of Navigate!.
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