HTML <noframes> tag represents an alternate content for users while browsers don’t support frames. Use HTML <frame> tag and <frameset> tag to display frames in your web page.
Note: The <noframes> tag is not supported now in HTML5. HTML <noframes> tag mostly supported in all major web browsers.
Here is the main web page that holds all the frames that we created above. You can see here we gave each frame path to main html page.
Sample Code – index.html
<head>
<title>HTML noframes Example</title>
</head>
<frameset rows = "15%, *, 20%">
<frame src="frame1.html">
<frameset cols= "25%, 75%">
<frame src="frame2.html">
<frame src="frame3.html">
</frameset>
<frame src="frame4.html">
<noframes>Sorry, your web browser does not support frames!</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
The main web page splitted in to four frames. Here is the source code for each frame that was needed for a reference frame.
Sample Code – frame1.html
<body style="background-color:red;">
<h5 align="center">Header content here</h5>
</body>
</html>
Sample Code – frame2.html
<body style="background-color:#f456fd;">
<h5 align="center">Side content here</h5>
</body>
</html>
Sample Code – frame3.html
<body style="background-color:#f5f5f4;">
<h5 align="center">Main content here</h5>
</body>
</html>
Sample Code – frame4.html
<body style="background-color:red;">
<h5 align="center">Footer content here</h5>
<h6 align="center"><a href="http://www.webblogsforyou.com/">webblogsforyou.com</a></h6>
</body>
</html>
Sample Result
Standard Attributes Support
HTML <noframes> tag supports mostly all HTML Attributes. Following are some most common attributes that are used by <noframes> tag. You can get more details about available HTML Attributes here.
| Attribute | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| class | user_defined | Represents a style for an element which is used in CSS style sheet |
| id | user_defined | Represents unique id for an element |
| style | css_properties | Represents an inline style for an element for e.g style=”color:red;text-decoration:underline;” |
| title | user_defined | Represents a tooltip information for an elements like img, a, abbr etc |
Event Attributes Support
The “script” is invoked when a certain “event” occurs. Each event handler content attribute deals with a different event. HTML <noframes> tag supports mostly all HTML Event Attributes. Following are some most common event attributes that are used by <noframes> tag. You can get more details about available HTML Event Attributes here.
| Attribute | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| onclick | script | Event Fires immediately when mouse click on the specified element |
| ondblclick | script | Event Fires immediately when mouse double-click on the specified element |
| onkeydown | script | Event Fires immediately when user is pressing a down key from keyboard |
| onkeypress | script | Event Fires immediately when user presses a key from keyboard |
| onkeyup | script | Event Fires immediately when user releases a key from keyboard |
| onmousedown | script | Event Fires immediately when mouse pointer gets down from an element |
| onmousemove | script | Event Fires immediately when mouse pointer moves over an element |
| onmouseout | script | Event Fires immediately when mouse pointer gets out from an element |
| onmouseover | script | Event Fires immediately when mouse pointer moves over an element |
| onmouseup | script | Event Fires immediately when a mouse pointer is released over an element |
