HTML frames - Implementation

Not all browsers can display frames, some because they were released before were invented and others, such as screen readers and digital TV, because they just do not work with them. For this reason, a noframes version of the website must always be provided for users.

The first document of the website, (the one usually called index.htm or default.htm) establishes the frames environment. This page is not actually displayed to the user: it just sets the frame structure used by the rest of the website. It is this page that places the website’s title in the browser’s window title bar and divides the screen up into the frames with in which subsequent HTML pages are displayed.

The following is a basic introduction to the HTML attributes that should always be used in a frames environment.