Frames help

cymro1170

I've been fiddling with creating a website using Microsoft Frontpage and have been testing it locally in Internet Explorer - thought it was working great - clicked on the buttons in my top frame and they opened in the bottom frame.

Downloaded Firefox earlier on and decided to test the same webpage locally through Firefox - Aaarrgghhh!!!

When I click on the buttons in the top fram now, the relevant page will open, but it'll get rid of the top frame at the same time, thus destroying my web navigation.

Anyone with any ideas?

Chippy_Minton

I remember having similar problems the first time I tried creating web pages with frames - it can be tricky until you get the hang of it.

Try An introduction to using HTML Frames. Alternatively, drop the idea of using frames cos they're old hat.

scotty

Avoid the use of frames. They seem like a good way of organising layout but there are some subtle downsides. Users do not like frames as they cannot navigate the way they are used to on non-frame sites. As you have discovered, browser support for frames is poor. I do not think that any one the current browsers are fully compliant with the standards.

Try using Tables or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control layout.

Mr_Skint_2

In link Bar properties just make sure that you only have Child pages under home
and Home page selected in each page, you can get to this by double clicking the
links at the top or side of the page/s in FrontPage.

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Just so glad I keep my copy handy..

wolfman

Frames will be (or should be) supported by all modern browsers. Like Mr Skint mentions, make sure you have all of your frames correctly id'd and when opening a link it targets the correct frame.

Frames are quite old school nowadays. They were very good for reducing the amount of repeated code on each page and controlling certain layouts. Scripting languages take care of this (the former) these days but are obviously a little more advanced.

I'd basically check over the id's you've used and the target frame each link is pointing it, and make sure it's all W3C compliant.