How to use Frameset Tag in HTML?

[MELTRONICS]

I have done with the basic things in HTML. Now I am stuck while using the Frameset Tag in HTML. I am using the frames, so that I can display more than one HTML document in the same browser window. I am little succeeding while using the Frame tag. But I think that I require more information about the Frame tag. Can anyone explain me how to use Frameset Tag in HTML? Please help me sooner.!

[Allan.d]

The main feature of the frame tag is to display more than one HTML document in the same browser window. You can call the HTML document is called a frame, and each frame is independent of the others. Also there are some disadvantages of using the frames. They are :

• It is difficult to print the entire page.
• The track of more HTML documents should be kept by the web developer.

The <frameset> tag defines how to divide the window into frames.

[Warner]

The Frameset Tag is used in HTML for the following reasons :

• Each frameset defines a set of rows or columns.
• The <frameset> tag defines how to divide the window into frames.
• The values of the rows/columns indicate the amount of screen area each row/column will occupy.

The <frame> tag defines what HTML document to put into each frame.
Hope that you know what exactly does the Frameset Tag do in HTML.

[CodGuru]

You can check the following example, for understanding the use of frameset tag. In the example that I have mentioned below, have a frameset with two columns. The first column is set to 30% of the width of the browser window. And the second column is set to 70% of the width of the browser window. The HTML document "trialframe_1.htm" is put into the first column, and the HTML document "trialframe_2.htm" is put into the second column :

<frameset cols="30%,70%">
   <frame src="trialframe_1.htm">
   <frame src="trialframe_2.htm">
</frameset>

[Viensterrr]

You can also set the value of Column size in pixels (cols="150,550"), and one of the columns can be set to use the remaining space (cols="25%,*"). A simple example is dividing the screen in two columns, the first with 300 pixels of width and the second with all the remaining space.

Code begin <frameset cols="300,*">
<frame name="first" noresize="noresize" src="trial1.html">
<frame name="second" noresize="noresize" src="trial2.html">
</frameset>

[void]

If you want to divide the screen in frames, then there are unlimited possibilities to do that. Frames are subdivided by replacing a single frame by a frameset. Below is an example of the same :

<frameset rows="150,*">
<frame name="source" noresize="noresize" src="source.html">
<frameset cols="200,*>
<frame name="direction" noresize="noresize" src="direction.html">
<frame name="matter" noresize="noresize" src="matter.html">
</frame>
</frameset>

[Deabelos]

I am trying to explain you in easy way. So I am giving you simple example of the frameset.

<frameset cols="250,*" border="7" bordercolor="Aqua">

Here are the attributes of frameset :

1. cols * - actually splits the page up into columns. values: if a regular number is there, the value is in pixels; if there is a percentage there, it is a percentage of the whole screen there, and if there are asterisks there, then the * is whatever is left over.
2. rows * - this one also splits the page up, and can be used instead of cols.
3. frameset * - tells the browser to look for frames.
4. border - this manipulates the width of the separators between the frames; values are in pixels.

I would like to suggest you not to use all pixel values, not all screens have the same resolution. Always have at least one * when using pixels.