`<IFRAME ...>`

Usage Recommendation
Use it, but be particularly careful to include options for the many people whose browsers don't do inline frames.

Inset Boxes using IFRAME

SRC: URL of the document to go in the frame
HEIGHT: height of the inline frame
WIDTH: width of the inline frame
NAME: name of this inline frame
LONGDESC: URL of a long description of the contents of the frame
FRAMEBORDER: if the frame should have a border around it

MARGINWIDTH: internal left/right margin for the frame
MARGINHEIGHT: internal top/bottom margin for the frame
SCROLLING: if the frame should have scroll bars
ALIGN: alignment of the frame object to text around it
VSPACE: space above and below the frame
HSPACE: space to the left and right of the frame

<IFRAME ...> is an HTML 4.0 addition to the frames toolbox. Currently only MSIE supports <IFRAME ...>.

Unlike frames created using <FRAMESET ...> and <FRAME ...>, <IFRAME ...> creates a frame that sits in the middle of a regular non-framed web page. <IFRAME ...> works like <IMG ...>, only instead of putting a picture on the page, it puts another web page.

For example, within the same directory as this page there is a file called "hello.html". This code puts hello.html into an inline frame:

<IFRAME SRC="hello.html" WIDTH=450 HEIGHT=100>
If you can see this, your browser doesn't 
understand IFRAME.  However, we'll still 
<A HREF="hello.html">link</A> 
you to the file.
</IFRAME>

which gives us this inline frame:

If you can see this, your browser doesn't understand IFRAME. However, we'll still <A HREF="hello.html">link</A> you to the file.

Here's what the code means:


IFRAME: The name of the <IFRAME ...> tag
SRC="hello.html": The URL of the document to show in the inline frame.
WIDTH=450 HEIGHT=100: The dimensions of the inline frame.
If you can see this, your browser doesn't understand IFRAME. However, we'll still <A HREF="hello.html">link</A> you to the file.: Code between <IFRAME ...> and </IFRAME> is not displayed by browsers that understand <IFRAME ...>. Browsers that do not understand <IFRAME ...> will display this code (because they don't know to ignore it).

You can do most of the things with <IFRAME ...> that you can do with regular frames, including set the frame border, set internal margins, and set if there are scroll bars. You can use the attribute so that you can set links to target the frame.

You can also control a few settings similar to the <IMG ...> tag, including ALIGN, HSPACE, and VSPACE.