HTML Frame Tag
HTML Frame Tag is a website organising tool of HTML. It is used to divide your browser window in various segments for multiple purposes. Here every segment can load separate HTML document. Each segment can work autonomously or alongwith other segments/frames.
There is one more important term i.e. A Frameset which is a collection of all the frames in a browser window. Browser's screen can be splitted into frames using <frameset> tag.
Why Frames?
- The user can see multiple pages in one browser window.
- It reduces server load as if you visit a new page, it does not reload all the pages.
- With the help of frames, we can use the page as static as well as dynamic i.e. we can maintain one part static and other parts as dynamic at the same time.
Disadvantages of using Frames
- There is a possibility that the webpage is displayed differnt on different csystems due to screen resolution.
- Search engines will face a problem while dealing with them in a proper manner as simple webpage.
- Some browsers do not support frames.
- Page navigation becomes problematic or slow if a webpage has many frames.
Syntax
HTML Frame Example
This will produce following result
Frame Attributes List
The below table contains Frame Attributes and their description which is supported by HTML version.
| Attribute Name | Attribute Value | Attribute Description |
|---|---|---|
| src | URL | refers to the url of the document to be loaded into the frame |
| marginwidth | pixels | refers to space to be left along the sides of the frame |
| marginheight | pixels | refers to space to be left at the top and bottom sides of the frame |
| name | text | refers to a unique name for the frame |
| noresize | pixels | refers to disabling the resizing of the frame |
| scrolling | pixels | refers to to decide whether to have scrollbarsin a frame |
| longdesc | URL | refers to to decide whether to have scrollbarsin a frame |
| frameborder | pixels | refers to URL to the document containing long description of the frame |
