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Absolute positioning and frames

Frames gained popularity during the early nineties. They presented the designer with an option of dividing the page into logical sections and loading multiple pages on a single window. It was very exciting and the exploitative potential appeared to be immense. However, increasing awareness of usability and accessibility issues, have made web designers wary of [...]

Understanding frames

Frames split the page into multiple windows with their own independent pages. These frames are created by first creating a frameset document. This document defines the ways in which the window is to be split and the pages that will be held by each independent frame in the window. A <frameset> tag replaces the body [...]

Imitating frames with absolute positioning

The <?xml version =1.0” encoding….> in the Quirks mode, will take care of the versions of IE and its problems with display as already indicated in an earlier chapter. The div elements will come to our aid in place of the framesets. All the div tags will be absolutely positioned, and their overflow property will [...]

Positioning elements within frames absolutely

Frames load separate pages. Each page is an independent container for different elements. These elements can be positioned using CSS-positioning techniques without reference to the positioning of elements in the other pages being loaded on different frames of the web page concurrently. Each page loaded onto a frame acts like an independent viewport. The elements [...]