CSS Frames Help

Hello all:

I am new to CSS and am attempting to design a page without using the
frame tag in html. I have searched the web and have not found an answer
to my problem. My page is quite simple, it has a header, contents area,
and footer. The header contains the menu, and I would like the page to
be linked in the contents area when the user selects from the menu.
However, I have no idea how to link the page (url) into the contents
portion. For example, if the user was to choose Home, from the menu,
then a little blurb (new url/html file) would be displayed within the
contents portion of the page. Any thoughts, and thanks in advance.

Vance.

vance wrote:

Hello all:

I am new to CSS and am attempting to design a page without using the
frame tag in html. I have searched the web and have not found an answer
to my problem. My page is quite simple, it has a header, contents area,
and footer. The header contains the menu, and I would like the page to
be linked in the contents area when the user selects from the menu.
However, I have no idea how to link the page (url) into the contents
portion. For example, if the user was to choose Home, from the menu,
then a little blurb (new url/html file) would be displayed within the
contents portion of the page. Any thoughts, and thanks in advance.

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vance <vance (AT) nowhere (DOT) ca> wrote in
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Hello all:

I am new to CSS and am attempting to design a page without
using the frame tag in html. I have searched the web and
have not found an answer to my problem. My page is quite
simple, it has a header, contents area, and footer. The
header contains the menu, and I would like the page to be
linked in the contents area when the user selects from the
menu. However, I have no idea how to link the page (url)
into the contents portion. For example, if the user was to
choose Home, from the menu, then a little blurb (new
url/html file) would be displayed within the contents
portion of the page. Any thoughts, and thanks in advance.

Vance.

The use of CSS will be important to control the behaviour of
your "frame content". For the best reference on using frames
see
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html

Good luck..

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vance <vance (AT) nowhere (DOT) ca> wrote:

I am new to CSS and am attempting to design a page without using the
frame tag in html. I have searched the web and have not found an answer
to my problem. My page is quite simple, it has a header, contents area,
and footer. The header contains the menu, and I would like the page to
be linked in the contents area when the user selects from the menu.
However, I have no idea how to link the page (url) into the contents
portion. For example, if the user was to choose Home, from the menu,
then a little blurb (new url/html file) would be displayed within the
contents portion of the page. Any thoughts, and thanks in advance.

You need to get out of your "frames" mindset.

Doing away with frames means that your HTML document urls will point to
a complete document. Everything that is displayed together in one
viewport is also coded together in the same document. That being so, a
HTML document link can point to another complete document, or to another
place within the same document. A link to "Home" would thus look
something like <a "home.htm">Home</a>. home.htm contains the header,
content, and footer.

When your get rid of frames you should also abandon the creation of "in
viewport" scroll bars, they are a usability nightmare.

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