Michele, > Isn't there a more lenient transitional frameset DTD? No, there is only one. You're probably thinking of the Transitional DTD, but the Frameset DTD is identical to Transitional with the addition of <frame>, <frameset>, and <noframes>, and their attributes. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#didx-document_type_declaration -2 James Aylard