Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 23 June 1997

Foil 53 General Syntax of <FRAMESET> Tag

From JavaScript Tutorial for Certificate Course UC Web applications Certificate -- Summer 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Scavo
1 <FRAMESET ROWS="rlist" COLS="clist"> ...
2 </FRAMESET>
3 where rlist and clist are a comma-separated list of values (but typically one of these attributes is omitted and nested framesets are used instead)
4 Following <FRAMESET> there must be the correct number of frames defined either by a <FRAME> tag or by a nested <FRAMESET> ... </FRAMESET>
5 rlist and clist are a mixture of
  • absolute number (such as 100) specifying pixels to be allocated
  • percentage (such as 30%) specifying percentage of available space
  • * notation where a single * means all the remaining space
  • rows="50,2*,*,*" means first frame gets 50 pixels while remaining 3 frames get 50%,25%,25% respectively of remaining space
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