Re: Frames Problem

"CarlyJ" <carl.jung (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

I am a newbee to DreamWeawer and when I create an empty html document
that has the following code:

SNIP

The part: <FRAMESET cols="20%, 80%"
FRAMESET rows="100, 200"
FRAME src="contents_of_frame1.html"
FRAME src="contents_of_frame2.gif"
/FRAMESET
FRAME src="contents_of_frame3.html"
/FRAMESET
disapperrs from the code section end I cannot retrieve the main html
document I can only retrieve the contents_of xxx.html documents.
Please help.

Some people will tell you not to use frames (I'm surprised nobody has
already replied saying that), but they are useful in some situations.

Webpages that have frames are actually made up of multiple files - one file
for the 'Frameset' code and then one file for the code of each frame. The
problem you're having is because when you click into a frame in the editing
panel the code panel changes to show just that frame's page code, but you
can get back to the 'Frameset' code itself.

There are two ways (note: I'm using an old version of Dreamweaver, so some
of these names may have changed / moved), you can either:

- click on the border of the frame, but you may need
to make the frame borders visible first by turning on
the option in the View menu
(View -> Visual Aids -> Frame Borders),

or - open the Frames palette window from the Window
menu and then clicking on any of the frames in it
(Window -> Frames)

Technically you can also open the 'Frameset' file in any word processor or
text editor, but this can cause a problem when the operating system to
changes which application the file belongs to - double clicking the file
then opens up that application instead of DreamWeaver.


Helpful Harry )