Netscape Frames

If you have not used frames in the past, we recommend that you learn about their creation by following these pointers to information about frames:

Webspinners - INTRODUCTION TO FRAMES

http://www.spunwebs.com/sites2c/frmtutor.html

Netscape - Hagan's World of HTML: Frame Basics

http://www.netscape.com/people/hagan/html/frames/framesb.
html

Netscape - THE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

http://www.best.com/~mcguirk/gavito/html-spec.html

Microsoft - HTML Reference

http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/newhtml/htmlref.
htm

Create your own sample HTML pages that use frames. Following are four sample documents as examples for your use. Create each of the four documents below in the same directory, cutting where indicated.

home.html
top.html
blank.html
bottom.html

Load home.html in your Web Browser and click on the URL to see the bottom frame change to a new document.

Sample File - home.html

	<HTML>
	<HEAD>
	<FRAMESET ROWS="*,*" BORDER="1">
   		<FRAME SRC="top.html" NAME="top">
   		<FRAME SRC="blank.html" NAME="bottom">
	</FRAMESET>
	</HEAD>
	</HTML>

Sample File - top.html

	<HTML>
	<HEAD><TITLE>Top (index) Page</TITLE>
		</HEAD>
	<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
	<H1>Top (index) Page</H1>
	<P>
	<A HREF="bottom.html" TARGET="bottom">Change 
document in bottom frame</A>
	</BODY>
	</HTML>

Sample File - blank.html

	<HTML>
	<HEAD><TITLE>Blank Page</TITLE>
	</HEAD>
	<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
	<H1>Blank Page</H1>
	<P>
	This is the BLANK page.
	</BODY>
	</HTML>

Sample File - bottom.html

	<HTML>
	<HEAD><TITLE>New Bottom Page</TITLE>
	</HEAD>
	<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
	<H1>New Bottom Page</H1>
	<P>
	This is the NEW BOTTOM page.
	</BODY>
	</NOFRAME>
	</HTML>

Using with Sapphire/Web:

Structure your HTML source files such that your start-up document within Sapphire/Web (if you want frames at start-up) contains a frames layout, just like home.html does. Place your frame target In top.html in the Anchor tag that your user clicks on to bring another HTML document into the bottom frame.:

<A HREF="bottom.html" TARGET="bottom">Change document in 
bottom frame</A>

Structure your HTML source with frames however you like. When you bind to an activator (Anchor) using Sapphire/Web, the tool only changes the HREF definition - it leaves your TARGET specifications AS THEY WERE. So you are completely free to make your Sapphire/Web bindings with or without frame TARGET specifiers.

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