Using valid W3C HTML 4.0/CSS to create zero spacing between frames.

• From: Christopher R. Barry <cbarry@2xtreme.net>
• Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 15:21:32 -0400 (EDT)
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <874sibtmc9.fsf@2xtreme.net>

I recently posted something about how to do this to newsgroups and was
told that if I wanted to validate my HTML I would have to use a custom
DTD and not stick with the W3C DTDs. If that is indeed so, then there
should be a standard way to do this in the future.

Basically, if I want to make it so that there is no border and no
spacing between frames I use:

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

This is not in compliance with the HTML 4.0 Frameset DTD though and
the best I can do is:

  <frameset>
    <frame frameborder="0" noresize>
       ...

This eliminates the frame resize/border bar but there is still a 10
pixel or so gray strip between the frames while with the first way
there is not.

No part of the CSS Level 2 specification seems to address this issue
either.

Christopher

Received on Saturday, 7 August 1999 18:30:02 UTC