[thelist] [HTML] current coding practices

Tue Oct 29 07:49:01 CST 2002

On 25/10/02 6:18 pm, "Chris W. Parker" <cparker at swatgear.com> wrote:

> i actually messed with a frames page later that day and thought i would
> try to get it to validate. it turns out (as i assumed when i wrote this
> letter)...
>
> framset {
> border: 0px;
> }
>
> ...does not do what i thought it would do. instead, according to the
> specification, the border attribute should now be contained in the
> <frame> tag. so in this case, you do not need to do anything with CSS on
> that one.

MMM NN4.7 on a mac places nice borders around the frames....

<frameset rows="*,440,*" cols="*,780,*">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
<frame src="home.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0" name="content">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
  <frame src="blank.html" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0">
<noframes><body>insert our no frames content including links for search bots
here...
</body></noframes>
</frameset>