Re[2]: XHTML Frames

Thursday, September 19, 2002, 4:20:12 PM, Javier wrote:

JGI> Hello,

JGI> I believe that you are in error, because I do my xhtml frameset with the
JGI> frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" attributes placed in the
JGI> frame tag -not in the frameset tag- and w3.org validator engine validate my
JGI> document!!!

JGI> The code result of this "experiment" are:

JGI> <frameset rows="*,*">
JGI> <frame src="page.html" name="name" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0"
JGI> marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" />
JGI> <frame src="page.html" name="name" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0"
JGI> marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" />
JGI> </frameset>

JGI> As a consequence, I believe that this method are fully correct. Please
JGI> correct if I am in error!!

JGI> Bye!



You are right and at least in HTML4.01 Frameset DTD - frameborder,
marginwidth, marginheight are valid attributes for FRAME element.
However only by setting them to 0 does not guarantee that all (or most)
user-agents will render no space between frames. At least 3 of most
often used browsers fail to do so. (I'm not sure if it is appropriate to
mention names in this list)

By doing various tests I figured out that the following line makes my
frame document appear exactly as intended (that is: NO borders and NO
empty space between frames) when rendered by most (if not all) user-agents:

<frameset ... border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="0">

But then again these are invalid attributes in any HTML/XHTML version.
I have no idea why most user-agents are supporting them.

I have also tried to achieve the desired result using CSS, but without
success. So far I have choose to have invalid code in my XHTML
document, since how the page appear is far more important for my customer.

Milen Dyankov

Received on Saturday, 21 September 2002 16:47:14 UTC