A Frameset Page

frames 1996 partly

A page with no body, holding three other pages in a grid.

In 2026: Frames still render, and they were removed from the HTML standard anyway. They broke bookmarking, printing, the back button and search results, all at once. The demo below really is a frameset and really does split into three panes. The panes are empty because the frame sources are relative paths that do not exist in the sandbox.

Where it came from: Netscape Navigator 2.0 frames extension, 1996. Standardised in HTML 4.0 in a separate frameset DTD, then removed in HTML5. MDN ↗

<html>
<head><title>My Home Page</title></head>
<frameset rows="80,*" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0">
  <frame name="banner" src="banner.html" scrolling="no" noresize marginheight="0">
  <frameset cols="150,*">
    <frame name="nav"  src="nav.html"  scrolling="auto" marginwidth="0">
    <frame name="main" src="main.html" scrolling="auto">
  </frameset>
  <noframes>
  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <p>This site uses frames. <a href="main.html">Here is the no frames version.</a></p>
  </body>
  </noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

sandboxed demo · breaks nothing but itselfrestart

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