Frameset

Frames are generated by three things: FRAMESET tags, FRAME tags, and Frame documents.

A Frame Document has a basic structure very much like a normal HTML document, except the BODY tags are replaced by the <FRAMESET> and </FRAMESET> tags. These describe the sub-HTML documents, or Frames, that will make up the page.

Example Frame Document:

<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>
      </TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <FRAMESET>
   </FRAMESET>
</HTML>

Two attributes the <FRAMESET> tags can take are ROWS and COLS. Within the <FRAMESET> tags, you can only have other nested <FRAMESET> tags, <FRAME> tags, or the <NOFRAMES> tag.

ROWS="row_height_value_list"

The ROWS attribute takes as its value a comma separated list of values, which can be absolute pixel values, percentage values between 1 and 100 whose total must equal 100, or relative scaling values. The number of rows is implicit in the number of elements in the list. A missing ROWS attribute is interpreted as a single row.

Syntax of value list. value: A numeric value is assumed to be a fixed size in pixels. This is the most dangerous type of value since the size of the viewer's window can and does vary substantially.
value %: A simple percentage value between 1 and 100. If the total is greater than 100, all percentages are scaled down. If the total is less than 100, and relative-sized frames exist, extra space will be given to them. If no relative-sized frames exist, all percentages will be scaled up to match 100%.
value *: The value on this field is optional. A single "*" character is a relative-sized frame and is interpreted as a request to give the frame all remaining space. If there exists multiple relative-sized frames, the remaining space is divided equally among them.

COLS="column_width_list": The COLS attribute takes as its value a comma separated list of values that is of the exact same syntax as described above for ROWS.

Examples:

1. <FRAMESET ROWS="20%,60%,20%"> - This tells the browser to divide the window up into three rows, with the top and bottom row each occupying 20% of the space, and allotting 60% of the viewing space to the middle row.

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2. <FRAMESET COLS="100,*"> - This tells the browser to divide the window into two columns, the left column being 100 pixels wide, and the second column getting all of the remaining space.

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