Point - If you don't want your pages to open in a new browser window. Don't use target tags. Then they will open in the same window you are at.
Q.I wanted to keep the Table of Contents frame, change the banner frame, and direct the "room" file to the view frame
A. To do 2 frame changes at the same time requires a JavaScript at least that is the only way I know of doing it.
I(Zonie) use such a script at
http://www.zoniez.com/crutchaids/start.htm
click the "Hints and tips" link and watch not only the main frame change but also the menu frame as well, your welcome to copy the JS as I did and modify it to your needs : )
Could just put a banner on each page you want to load, that way wouldn't need banner frame at all : )
Q. I would like to make the border
on my frames some other color
beside the default gray (in my browser). Can anyone tell me
how this is done?
A. http://sharkysoft.com/tutorials/frames/4/2.htm
Q. I created my new web pages with frames. I coded the no frames option and created a different page for it. How do I check to see if the "no frames" is working?
A. If you are working with Netscape 4 you can hit File/Edit Page (not Edit Frame!) and you will go into Netscape Composer and immediately see whether the noframes code is working.
It also works with Ms IE 5 when "File" can lead you to choose "Edit with Netscape Navigator" .
Frames Placement, I think this was the hardest thing for me to understand about frames in the beginning, until finally it dawned on me that toc.html [my left frame] and main.html [the body] were part of index.html [the whole page].
Q. Sometimes when I go to a web page and click on the view source, the entire page source does not show up. Does anybody know why?
A. Subject: Re: source code
You are probably looking at a page that uses "frames" in which case what you see in the source code will be very brief. Using frames are beyond the scope of this class but are included in the Advanced HTML class. But if you right click on the frame you wish to view and select to view the frame source, you will see the text.
Take a look at the Source code for this bulletin board -- even though the BB is long and quite detailed, you will find almost no information in the source code -- just how the frames were set up.
A. ...put a no frames link on your page in the table of content
Q. : Scrolling bars in Frames
- Sometimes I see scrolling bars in each frame I created (as per the lesson on Frames), and sometimes those scrolling bars are not there. I'm almost sure that I have something on my computer "set" wrong, but don't know what it might be. HAS ANYONE else had this problem??
A. The browser only puts a scroll bar into a frame when the content is too long or too wide to be displayed within the frame. If you look at the frames where you don't see the bars, I suspect that this is what is happening.
...you can command the browser to not display the scroll bars if that is what you want. This is accomplished by including the SCROLLING="no" attribute within the <FRAME> tag.
Be very careful about denying the scroll bar until you are sure that you've tested your frameset at ALL possible monitor resolutions. If you don't, it's possible that viewers using a lower resolution will not be able to see (and use) important links or graphics.
Q. Now floating frames and the difference between "Parent", and "TOP"
A. A floating frame is a frame that is not on and edge (IE top/side/bottom) but rather in the middle of a page that scrolls up along with the rest of the content of the page.
_top = load to current page(non frame page) or frame (where link is located, all other frames remain the same.)
_parent = load to current browser window. on a frameset page all frames will be gone and new page or set of frames loaded into current browser window.
Q. Can someone tell me how to make the pages close when you go on to another? Every time a page is accessed, it stays open, the the next page is put over it -- makes for a long list of open pages, and a real pain.
A. First add "'s
<FRAME NAME="ppTofC" SRC="pptofc.html">
<FRAME NAME="ppview" SRC="ppview.html">
instead of
<a href="kitchen.html" TARGET="_top">Kitchen</a>
use
<a href="kitchen.html" TARGET="ppview">Kitchen</a>
A. Not much point, IMHO, in using frames if you're opening the pages outside the frame anyway by using target="_top".
If you leave the left frame for navigation, then you can open these pages inside your main frame by using TARGET="ppview".
You can still have the graphical menu in your main frame as the initial page, but here you would have to change the target to "self" in order for these to open inside the main frame; TARGET="_self"
Any links leading to pages outside your own should still have TARGET="_top" though.
Q. I went back to a frames draft I hadn't turned in yet. I've always done only 2 frames before (top and bottom or side to side). I tried the 3 way in last week's lesson. Now, I've never had a problem with two having no border or gap between the colors...but here I do. Have border="0" have tried border color same as frames, have tried adding ",*" after 20%,80%.
No go, I still have the white gaps. Now, I think I may like them in the end....kind of a nice definition, BUT, there should be a way to fix it so it goes color to color if I want it to...*
A. try margins=0 too : )
<FRAME SRC="music.htm" NAME="music" SCROLLING="NO" MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" BORDER="0" NORESIZE>
A. <FRAMESET ROWS="20%,*"
BORDER=0 SPACING=0 FRAMEBORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
This worked for me. I got that from the Frames Tutor- Joe Barta.
Q. Floating Frames
What is the purpose of the floating frame. I'm not sure I'm grasping how or why it works.
A. Floating Frames AKA I Frames, are used to insert pictures or text easily with out editing the page, you simply call a different file to that frame, or change the file that is called, this prevents disruption of the rest of the page due to changes in content for that area.
Q. noframes ?
I am a bit confused as to what should be in the body portion of noframes and what it does?
Should noframes be included always with frames so all users can see your webpage?
A. Believe it or not there are browsers out there that still don't support frames, <NOFRMES> is for those browsers, they won't see the frame stuff only what you put between the <NOFRAMES></NOFRAMES> Tag, I usually say something like
<NOFRAMES>
You are using a non frames compatible browser. You should up grade
{{link to browser download here}}
or
{{link to non frames pages you have created}}
</NOFRAMES>
Q. : Background problem in frame page.
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I'm trying to put a .jpg image in the view frame of my web page. I can get the image in there but I don't want it to tile. How can I make the .jpg take up all the frame.
