Open a frames page

A frames page is a special kind of HTML page that divides the browser window into different areas called frames, each of which can display a different page. When you click a hyperlink on a page displayed in one frame, the page pointed to by that hyperlink is displayed in another frame.

The frames page itself contains no visible content: It's just a container that specifies which other pages to display and how to display them.

Use this procedure to open an existing frames page from any view. You can then change the size and appearance of the frames on the frames page itself, and you can create or edit the individual pages displayed in each frame.

• On the File menu, click Open, and then select the frames page you want to open.

Tip   To edit a page displayed in a frame in another window, right-click the page, and then click Open Page in New Window on the shortcut menu.

Rename a frame

Each frame on a frames page has a unique name, which is used to specify navigation between frames. In the Contents frames page template included with Microsoft FrontPage, for example, clicking a hyperlink in the Contents frame on the left displays a page in the Main frame on the right.

If you created the frames page using Contents or one of the other frames page templates, the names of frames are already set up for you. You can change these default frame names.

1. In Page view, open the frames page that you want to modify, and then click the Normal tab.
2. Right-click anywhere in the frame you want to rename, and then click Frame Properties on the shortcut menu.
3. In the Name box, type the new name for the frame.

Important   If you rename a frame, any existing hyperlinks anywhere in your web that point to the old frame name will no longer work. You must find each occurrence of the hyperlink in your web, edit the hyperlink, and change the Target frame box to the new frame name.

Resize a frame

When you resize a frame while editing a frames page, adjacent frames resize accordingly to fill the space. Resizing a frame on a frames page has no effect on the content of any pages displayed in that frame, it merely changes how much or little of the page is displayed at one time in the frame.

• In Page view, open the frames page you want to modify, and then click and drag any frame border.
• You can specify the size of a frame precisely. Right-click in the frame, click Frame Properties on the shortcut menu, and then adjust the Width and Height options in the Frame size area. You can specify the frame size to be a fixed number of pixels, a percentage of the size of the browser window, or sized in values relative to other frames in the same row or column.

Notes

• If the frame is in the same row as another frame, the Height box changes to Row Height. Changing the row height of the current frame will also change the row height of every other frame in the row.
• Similarly, the Width box changes to Column Width if the frame is part of a column, with similar effects.
• Before you change how a frame is sized (in pixels, as a percentage, or relative to other frames), consider how the change will affect the layout of your designs and the behavior of the entire frames page when it is viewed in a browser.
• To prevent a site visitor from resizing a frame when viewing the frames page in a browser, right-click the frame, click Frame Properties on the shortcut menu, and then clear the Resizable in browser check box