HTML Elements and Attributes that Create a Frame Based Webpage

Guest Author - Diane Cipollo

Below is a list of the most commonly used^*** html element tags that create a frame based webpage or inline frame.

Note: Some attributes listed below have been depreciated in favor of Cascading Style Sheets.

Element Tags for Frame Based Webpage or Inline Frame
Element	Opening Tag	Attributes	Closing Tag	Description
frame	<frame>	scr="location" name="id" scrolling="?" frameborder="#" marginheight="x" marginwidth="x" noresize	None	Defines one frame in the frameset scr - location of file name - ID for frame scrolling - yes, no, auto frameborder - set to zero for no border marginheight - height in pixels marginwidth - width in pixels noresize - prevents resizing of frames
frameset	<frameset>	cols="%" rows="%" border="?" frameborder="x" framespacing="x"	</frameset>	Sets frame based webpage cols - percent of entire frameset for each column rows - percent of entire frameset for each row border - 0 for off, 1 for on frameborder - size of border of panes framespacing - empty space between panes
iframe	<iframe>	src="location" height="x or %" width="x or %" name="id"	</iframe>	Creates an inline frame src - URL of included file height - set to pixels or percent width - set to pixels or percent name - identifies inline frame
noframes	<noframes>		</noframes>	Content to be displayed if browser cannot display frames

^***A complete list of html element tags can be found at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html
^**Color can be set using color names (red, black, etc) or RGB color codes or hexidecimal color codes.