Frames

Frames Pages  let you divide a web browser window into a set of "windowpanes," or frames, and thereby give you the ability to show more than one HTML document at a time. For example, you might use one frame to show your site's table of contents while using the other frame to show the different web pages requested by the web site visitor. To create a frames page, you describe a grid of frames that you want a web browser to display. Then for each frame, you provide a hyperlink to the HTML document - the actual web page - which the web browser should display in that frame. The frames page itself is just another HTML document. To display a frames page, a visitor simply clicks a hyperlink to the frames page. Or a visitor can indirectly request the frames page, such as by visiting a web site for which the frames page is the Home page. Once a visitor requests (either directly or indirectly) to load a frames page, the web server passes the frames page to the visitor's web browser and then passes the individual HTML documents - the target frames - that will fill the frames of the frames page.