The Frameset Document

Time to get down to the nitty gritty! The frame layout is defined in one file called frameset document which differs from a normal HTML document.

A simple example:

<FRAMESET COLS="20%,80%">

[...]

</FRAMESET>

The previous <FRAMESET> tag defines two vertical frames. The first one takes up 20% of the browser window, and the second extends over the remaining space on the righthand side, i.e. 80% of the window.



Figure 1: Our frameset rendering

The <FRAMESET> tag accepts two attributes for frame definition:

• COLS, for vertical frames.
  
  
• ROW, for horizontal frames.
  
  

In both cases the frame sizes are given as parameters with separating commas, either in pixels or in percent, as in the previous example.