Quick Reference: Creating Frame-Based Pages | How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML

Frames are another example of simple HTML that can become very complex. Complicated framesets with nested frames can be quite confusing to set up. However, a basic frameset is easy to do. The following table lists the necessary elements and attributes:

To Do This	Use This
Add an XHTML frameset <!DOCTYPE> declaration	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C// DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
Create a frameset	<frameset> </frameset>
Create a frame	<frame />
Specify a frame’s source file	<frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/page1.htm" />
Assign a name to your frame	<frame name="frame1" />
Provide content for noncompatible browsers	<noframes> </noframes>
Specify rows	<frameset rows="#"> (Pixels or percentages)
Specify columns	<frameset cols="#"> (Pixels or percentages)
Turn borders off	<frame frameborder="no" /> (Default is "yes")
Prevent resizing	<frame noresize />
Add or remove scroll bar	<frame scrolling="auto \| yes \| no" /> (Default is "auto")
Control margins	<frame marginheight="#" marginwidth="#" /> (# = pixels)
Create a two column frameset	<frameset cols="#, #"> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage1.htm" /> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage2.htm" /> </frameset>
Create a two row frameset	<frameset rows="#, #"> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage1.htm" /> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage2.htm" /> </frameset>
Create a nested frameset	<frameset cols="#, #"> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage1.htm" /> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage2.htm" /> <frameset rows="#, #"> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage3.htm /> <frame src="/books/4/238/1/html/2/webpage4.htm /> </frameset> </frameset>