HTML and CSS Reference
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where
frames
istheindividualframeswithintheframeset.You'llexplorehowtocreate
theseframesshortly.
Notethattheframesetelementreplacesthe
body
elementinthisHTMLdocument.
BecausethisHTMLiledisplaysthecontentofotherWebpages,itisnottechnicallya
Webpageand,therefore,doesnotincludeapagebody.Aframesetislaidoutineither
rowsorcolumns,butnotboth.FigureE-3showstwoframesets:oneinwhichtheframes
arelaidoutinthreecolumnsandanotherinwhichtheyareplacedinthreerows.
Figure e-3
Frame layouts in rows and columns
frames laid out in columns
frames laid out in rows
Thesyntaxfordeiningtheroworcolumnframelayoutis
<framesetƒrows=”
row1
,
row2
,
row3
,...”>ƒ...ƒ</frameset>
or
<framesetƒcols=”
column1
,
column2
,
column3
,...”>ƒ...ƒ</frameset>
where
row1
,
row2
,
row3
,andsoonaretheheightsoftheframerows,and
column1
,
column2
,
column3
,andsoonarethewidthsoftheframecolumns.Thereisnolimitto
thenumberofrowsorcolumnsyoucanspecifyforaframeset.
Therowandcolumnsizescanbespeciiedinthreeways:inpixels,asapercentage
ofthetotalsizeoftheframeset,orbyanasterisk(*).Theasteriskinstructsthebrowserto
allocateanyunclaimedspaceintheframesettothegivenroworcolumn.Forexample,
