When I navigate around some websites the URL in the browsers address bar never changes. How can I link to specific webpages on such a site?
A webpage can be divided into more parts or “windows” called frames. Each frame has its own URL. However the address bar in the browser only shows the URL of the collection of frames called the frameset. Frames can sometimes be valuable to the design of a webpage. However they can also be problematic, and they break the idea that each webpage has a unique address, the URL, that you can link to from other pages or tell to a friend. The trouble is that if you click something in one frame, like a menu, it might change the content of another frame. And this is not reflected in the URL in the address bar. Therefore you cannot link to what you actually see on your screen. (And neither can a search engine!) You can however link to a specific frame in the frameset. If you place the mouse pointer in a specific frame and click the right button, most browsers allow you to view that frame only (choose “view this frame only”). You can then see the URL of the frame in the address bar. If you are nav
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