Tag IFRAME « TUTORIAL

Tag IFRAME

Description

Tag <IFRAME> creates the floating frame, which is located in the regular document, it allows downloading any other independent documents to the area of target size.

Tag <IFRAME> is a package, the content of which is ignored by browsers, which don’t support this tag. You may define alternate text for such browsers, which the users will see. It must be located between elements <IFRAME> and </IFRAME>.

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Parametrs

Align defines the way the frame will be aligned, and the way of its floating with the text

Frameborder defines whether to display the frame bound or not

Height height of frame

Hspace horizontal indent from the frame to the content

Name name of an object

Scrolling mapping device of the scroll bar

Src the way to the file the content of which will be downloaded to the frame

Vspace vertical indent from the frame to the content

Width width of frame

Closing Tag

Is optional

The Description of Tag <IFRAME> Parameters

ALIGN Parameter

Description

The location of the floating frame on the web page may be indicated or the way of text floating may be defined. The way of alignment is defined by ALIGN parameter of the tag <IFRAME>.

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Arguments

Abbsmidle middle alignment of the middle of the frame

Baseline baseline alignment

Bottom bottom alignment according to the text

Left left alignment of the frame

Middle middle alignment of the frame according to the base line of the current line

Right right alignment of the frame

Texttop top alignment according to the highest text element of a current line

Top top alignmnent according to the highest element of a current line

Default value

Bottom

FRAMEBORDER Parameter

Description

The border with 3D effect is drawn around the content by default. In order to hide it the frameborder parameter is used.

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The value of the colour can be defined in two ways.

Arguments

Yes (or 1) images the border around the frame

No (or 0) hides the border around the frame

Default value

HEIGHT and WIDTH Parameter

Description

HEIGHT and WIDTH parameter is used to change the frame size by means of HTML. The values in pixels and percents are allowed to use.

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&amp;amp;amp;lt;dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;Default value&amp;amp;amp;lt;/dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;lt;dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;Width – 300 pixels, height – 150 pixels.&amp;amp;amp;lt;/dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;lt;dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;HSPACE and VSPACE Parameter&amp;amp;amp;lt;/dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;
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&amp;amp;amp;lt;dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;You may define invisible horizontal and vertical indents for any frame by means of hspace and vspace parameter.   &amp;amp;amp;lt;/dd&amp;amp;amp;gt;
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&amp;amp;amp;lt;pre lang="html4strict" line="1"&amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;lt;iframe hspace="horizontal fields"&amp;amp;amp;gt;...
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Arguments

Any positive integer in pixels or percents.

Default value

NAME Parameter

Description

While link following in HTML document the active document in the browser window is changed with the new one. In order to send the content to the frame, it must have unique name, which is defined with name attribute. In this case while link creating you must define target parameter in the tag <A>. The name of the frame is used as its value.

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Arguments

The number of symbols including letters and numbers is used to indicate a name. Follow the same spelling as in the name parameter.

Default value

SCROLLING Parameter

Description

If the content of the frame does not fit the defined size, then scroll bars appear to view the information. In case the scroll bars trouble the web page design, you may reject it.

Scrolling parameter is used to control displaying of scroll bars.

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Arguments

Auto scroll bars are added by the browser only if it is necessary, in case the content of the frame is more than its visual part.

No cancels the displaying of scroll bars

Yes activates the scroll bars independently of information content

Default value

Auto

SRC Parameter

Description

Indicates the address of the file (URL), which will be downloaded to the frame. It can be HTML document, image or server-side code. It is allowed not only to use the way to the file, but also the name of JavaScript function, which returns the value.