What are frames in web design?
For a good example, here’s a web site with frames (it’s a good safe site): http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/ The frames on this site is easy to recognize because you can see the scroll bars for each frame. You can set up frames with no scroll bars so it all looks like a single web page. You see 2 frames on the left side, one at the top and one at the bottom, and then a larger frame on the right side. You can think of “frames” as an internal “browser window” because you can load a different web page into each window. And that’s what are frames. Actually, this site is loading 4 web pages. You have the 3 frames pages that you see. You also have to have a parent web page that controls where to put each frame, how to size each frame and what web page to load into each frame. However, it’s not a good idea to use frames. Most people don’t like web pages. Try clicking around the web site above, and pay attention to th