HTML Frames

Basics

• to create a frame based website, you need to create one html file that specifies the structure of the frames(frameset) and a separate html file for each cell. 
• The frameset HTML file does not have a "body" tag, instead it has a frameset tag.
• This tag specifies the amount of space to allocate for each row and for each column
• <FRAMESET ROWS = "row height list" COLS = "column width list">
• Row height list and column width lists have one entry for each cell, each entry can be an absolute pixel value, percentage of screen space, or "*" which says use up what’s left over. Example:
• <FRAMESET ROWS = "20%,20%,*" COLS = "30%,*">
• this creates a frameset with 3 rows and 2 columns
  
• Between the <FRAMESET ...>   and </FRAMESET> tags may come other FRAMESETs or  <FRAME> tags specifiying the contents of each frame.
• <FRAME SRC = "url" NAME = "window name" MARGINWIDTH = N MARGINHEIGHT=N NORESIZE SCROLLING="yes/no/auto" >
• Cells are filled using the frames going across the rows. 
• Margin height/width are in pixels
• NORESIZE is optional and specifies whether or not user should be allowed to make a frame bigger.
• Window name is important and is used to target the output of forms and links.
• Scrolling can be enabled (Yes), disabled (No), or used when needed (AUTO