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The previous section explains the basic operation for the frame function, including creating and saving a page with frame. This section explains advanced operation for the frame function.

This section contains the following topics:

HTML tags <FRAME SRC= NAME= MARGINWIDTH= MARGINHEIGHT= SCROLLING= NORESIZE>



Increasing the margin of each section

Assigning an appropriate margin for each section gives it a good appearance.

  1. Click the target section using the right mouse button, and select Frame Attributes from the pop-up menu.

    Pop-up menu

  2. In the dialog box for changing the frame attributes, select Use Horizontal Margin and Use Vertical Margin, and specify their values in pixels.

    Attribute dialog box

  3. Click the OK button.

    You cannot see the result in the editor, but you can see the result when displaying the frame-using page on a Web browser.


Changing the link target

Suppose you divide the window into left and right sections, and you set a link on the text on the left section, the link destination page is normally displayed in the same left side section. However, if you use the target attribute, you can display the link destination page on the right section.

Vocabulary Vocabulary target

One of the link attributes. This indicates where the link destination page is to be displayed.


  1. To specify a name for the section where you want to display the link destination page, click the section using the right mouse button, select Frame Attributes from the pop-up menu, and type a name next to Frame Name.

    Tip Tip For example, specify the name "left" for the left section and "right" for the right section, which is easy to remember.

  2. Set a link into text or an image for the link source. When you open the Attribute dialog box for a link, select a frame name that you specified from the Target box. [Ref.] "Chapter 8. Setting links"

    Example of target specification

  3. Click text or an image for the link source to check that the frame name of the target section is displayed in the Target box of the URL toolbar.

    URL and Target of toolbar

    If you click a link on a Web browser, the link destination page is displayed in the specified section.

Tip Tip To display the link destination page on the full window, select Full Window in the Target box of the Attribute dialog box for a link. The link destination page is then displayed on the full Web browser window.


Tip Tip To remove a target specification, delete the frame name in the Target box on the URL toolbar. To change a target specification, type another frame name.