Framing Borders with Frames

By continuing to vary the technique previously used, you can quickly create nice framing. To do this, we will use five frames instead of two:



Figure 4: Fancy framing with five frames

By organising the five frames appropriately, you can obtain a fancy border around the page. The striped borders are, in fact, small frames with a striped background pattern. Here are the five frames used:



Figure 5: Five separate pages

You can obtain the same sort of result with a simplified version. The page shown below uses framing made up of plain colours, without any image:



Figure 6: A frame with plain colours

Whatever the size of the browser window, a frame of a different colour will be displayed around the central area. The trick is to apply absolute values for the frame widths (here, 20 pixels) and to use an asterisk (*) for the remaining window area.