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You should have a basic understanding
of how frames are generated and what the tag attributes mean and do. It
is beyond the scope of this help file to provide complete HTML frame tutoring.
When using WYSIWYG editors, you should be prompted for
frame names when you generate the frameset (even when using a wizard).
It is important that you remember these names as you will need to use
them in 1CBT. Note: some WYSIWYG editors will actually name the frames
for you, as in FRAME1 and FRAME2 or similar.
This will create a two framed window, the example will
use the top frame (header) for navigation links and the bottom
frame (main) is the display frame. Where the links open into, also
referred to as the Target Frame or T-Frame.
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML
4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/tr/rec-html40/loose.dtd">
<!-- Filename INDEX.HTML, created November 22, 1999 -->
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Frameset</title>
<!-- Small nav frame at top called header, large view frame at bottom
called main -->
</head>
<frameset rows="44,*" framespacing="0" border="0"
frameborder="0">
<frame name="header" src="top.html" scrolling="no"
noresize>
<frame name="main" src="body.html" scrolling="auto">
<noframes>
<body>
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Note the frame names defined as follows:
<frame name="header" src="top.html" scrolling="no"
noresize>
<frame name="main" src="body.html" scrolling="auto">
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Cool Button Tool settings: |
Notice that the Link and T-Frame fields are empty when designing
a new applet.
Notice that one of the buttons is associated to a file named
body2.html and that the target frame (T-Frame) contains main (As
per the above frameset example).
Remember, each frame has a frame name, this is the item
that goes into the T-Frame field of the Applet Generating Program. DO
NOT put quotes around the name when entering it into the T-Frame field.
Simply type the name as in main and build the applet.
Note:
The SRC name of body.html should not be used in the T-Frame field.
Alternatively, you can add the following line in your navigation
frame html file (top.html as in the above frameset example) between the
<head> and </head> tags: This would be the page that has the
applet code in it. This will set all link default target to the main Frame.
<head>
<base target="main">
</head>
Important Note:
Frame names are case-sensitive. That means that you must specify the capitalization
consistently - if you refer to a frame named "Main" as "main"
your project will not work as expected.
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multiple frames with multiple html files simultaneously: |
Simply follow the procedure above, except that you separate
each item in Link and in T-Frame by a comma-space ', ' as in 'top2.html,
body2.html' and 'header, main' as in the example below.
And that's all there is to handling
frames with 1 Cool Button Tool
Frames have 4 reserved names, which can be used in
the T-Frame field:
| Reserved Name |
Default Window Action |
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_blank
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Opens a new browser session
with the reference page in it. |
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_self
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Opens the reference page in
its calling frame name. |
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_top
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Opens the reference page in
the top (Overwriting the frameset). |
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_parent
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Opens the reference page in
the parent window. |
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