Setting up each frame in the frame set

You use the Frame Inspector to name each frame and link it to a Web page. You can use the name of the frame as the target when you create links to it from other pages, for example, to make a link's destination page appear in the frame. (Names assigned to individual frames won't appear in the browser window.) You can also set scrolling bars for each frame and whether the size of the frame is fixed or automatically resizes when the browser window is resized.

To name a frame in the frame set:

1. Click inside the frame to select it.
2. In the Frame Inspector, enter a name in the Name text box.

To link a frame to a page:

Drag the page from the site window into the frame. You can also select the frame and use the Frame Inspector to specify the page in the URL text box. (See Linking files.)

Note: To make the contents of the frame change when visitors click links on a page in another frame, you make this frame the target for each link. (See Setting up target frames.)

To set scrolling bars for a frame:

In the Frame Inspector, choose Yes, No, or Auto from the Scrolling pop-up menu to show or hide scrolling bars. Auto hides the scrolling bars if they aren't needed and shows them if the content is too large for the frame.

To set the size of a frame:

In the Frame Inspector, do any of the following:

• Choose Scale from the Size pop-up menu if you want the frame to resize automatically when the browser window is resized.
• Choose Pixel from the Size pop-up menu, and enter the desired size in pixels if you don't want the frame to be resizeable. For example, use this technique if the frame will display a small image of known dimensions.

Note: If you specify an absolute size in pixels for one frame, you must set at least one more frame of the same orientation to Scale, or the frame set scales all frames in that direction.

• Choose Percent from the Size pop-up menu if you want the frame to have a fixed ratio relative to the overall height or width of the frame set. Then enter a value in the Size text box to preset a percentage. For frames with horizontal orientation, this attribute controls the relative height. For frames with vertical orientation, it controls the relative width.

To resize a frame by dragging:

• Click inside the frame to select it, and drag its vertical or horizontal border to resize the height or width.
• In the Frame Inspector, choose Pixel or Percent from the Size pop-up menu, and drag the frame border to the desired size.

To set the size of a frame border:

Select the vertical or horizontal border. In the Frame Set Inspector, select BorderSize and enter a value in pixels in the text box.