Filling your frameset, continued.

We need to make those navigation links work, so we need visit.html open.

You must also have your frameset page open. Must. No choice. Won't work otherwise.

You can open it by double clicking its icon in the frameset - in fact that's a good way to do it, as it makes sure you don't forget to have the frameset page open. Also, by opening it that way rather than directly from your site window, it will open up the right size and shape.

Here's visit.html.

Important - if you don't get the next bit right, page 1 will replace your navigation page in the left hand frame. Look at the target dropdown - you will find the names of your frames offered in the list. That's why you named them, and that's why you must have the frameset open, or you won't see these choices.

I've chosen 'right' because that's what I called the right hand frame.

Do the same for the link to page 2.

Look again at the target dropdown.

If you choose _top, then the page you link to will replace the whole frameset in the browser window. You might want to do that if the frameset isn't your index page and you want to send people back to the homepage, for instance. Or you might want to replace this frameset with another one.

_parent - you won't need this unless you have nested framesets, not recommended for beginners.

_self is like default - the new page replaces the current one in the frame - this will happen if you don't choose any target. You may well want links on page one to take you straight to page 2 in the same frame.

_blank opens a new browser window for the linked page - you might want this for an external link, it's bad manners to trap someone else's site in your frameset! I used it earlier for an example page.

So, we have a working frameset. How to solve the search engine problems and the one about people finding an inner page by mistake .. coming soon. Back to page 1, page 2, page 3.