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9.3 Selecting Frames and Framesets

Think of a frame as a mini document window; each frame contains a separate Web
page. When you click inside the frame, you can add images, text, and other elements
to the page. Click inside another frame to edit that frame's Web page.

However, since framesets aren't visible elements of a Web page, Dreamweaver provides
a special windowthe Frames panelthat provides a simple visual overview of frames and framesets, making it easier for you to select and modify them. To open
it, choose WindowFrames or press Shift-F2 (see Figure 9-7).

Selecting a frameset lets you save it and modify its properties, such as frame size and
whether or not there are borders, as described in Section 9.5. There are several ways
to select a frameset:

Click the thick border around the edges of the frames in the Frames panel. The
border becomes a solid black line to indicate the frameset is selected.

Move the cursor over a frame border in the document window, slowly if necessary,
until it changes to a double-headed arrow; then click to select the border.
(This works only if frame borders are visible on the page: Choose ViewVisual
AidsFrame Borders, or use the View Options menu in the document window's
toolbar.) The gray frame borders acquire dashes to show that the entire frameset
is selected.

Here, frames keep the site
identity (top banner) and
navigation (left sidebar)
visible. This site is made of
three frames (numbered)
and two framesets. To create
this design, start with
a frameset divided into
two horizontal rows. Click
the bottom frame; choose
ModifyFramesetSplit
Frame Left.


The Frames panel shows a thumbnail diagram of the
current document's frames. Thick 3-D borders represent
a frameset, while thin gray lines represent the borders of
frames. The thick black borderthe outer frameset in this
exampleindicates a selected frameset, while a thin black
border represents a selected frame. A name appears inside
each frame to identify it, so that you'll know how to target
links to this frame.

The <frameset> tag also appears in the tag selector, providing yet another way to
select a frameset. (Make sure you've first inserted the cursor, or selected text or
graphics, inside a frame page.)

Selecting a frame lets you save it and modify its properties, including margins and
scroll bars, as described in Section 9.5.3. To select a frame, do one of the following:

Click a frame in the Frames panel.

Alt-click (Shift-Option-click) a frame in the document window.