Frames
To ease navigation between differet parts of a WEB site, people use the so called frame technique , this
against recommendation of some purists.
Frames are partial windows, that allow one or some components to be changed solely, whereas others, like navigation
windows stay stable.
We want to create a so called "frameset", that includes your current start page, but enables you,
using an additional navigation window, to switch between the first page and other parts.
To implement that, we need some more content pages as well as a navigation page.
The additional pages (lets start with two) you create following the same scheme.
Call them seite2.html and
seite3.html. As sample, here the HTML code of two nearly empty pages.
Thats how they look.
Before continuing, again a lession of the compendium, namely
chapter "Frames".
Creation of a Simple Frameset Including Two Frames
Refering the lecture you will remember the layout of HTML pages, that are in fact just consisting of frames.
Your task now is to create a file frames.html that describes two frames within a
framesets , side by side.
The name of the left frame is expected to be NAVIGATION and it should show a - to be created -
page nav.html.
The right frame's name is INHALT, and it should show your first page
seite1.html.
Thats , how about your HTML code could look
Creation of the Navigation Page
Still missing is the content of the page to be shown in the navigation frame.
Function of this page is, to change and control the display of the frame named INHALT :
- We want to be able, to switch between your three pages.
To enable this, your navigation page nav.html must contain links to all three pages -
but always referencing a display target of INHALT . To differenciate the navigation frame
from the content pages, use a light gray background colour.
Coding example for the navigation page
The whole now finally
looks about that.
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