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sites you visit will want to show you more than one
page at once. They solve this problem by putting
their pages in frames, or different sections of the
screen. When you use frames, you can keep one part
of the screen open all the time while you look at
other things in the other part. An example would be
a page about animals that lists mammals in one
frame. When you click on "deer"
information shows up in the other section of the
page while the list of mammals remains the same.
In creating a
Web site, frames is the use of multiple,
independently controllable sections on a Web
presentation. This effect is achieved by building
each section as a separate HTML file and having one
"master" HTML file identify all of the
sections. When a user requests a Web page that uses
frames, the address requested is actually that of
the "master" file that defines the frames;
the result of the request is that multiple HTML
files are returned, one for each visual section.
Links in one frame can request another file that
will appear in another (or the same) frame. A
typical use of frames is to have one frame
containing a selection menu in one frame and another
frame that contains the space where the selected
(linked to) files will appear.
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