Rainbo Design's No-Frames Navigation System
<IFRAME>s

<IFRAME>s are also a powerful tool for webmasters. It allows you to insert the contents of an external file into your webpages - which is exactly what we want here.

The contents of the menu seen here on the left is actually stored in a separate HTML file. You can update the navigation on your whole site, just by editing this single external file. Its even easier than using frames because you don't have to worry about the TARGET attribute, and you can add links to pages outside your own site without having to worry about them loading inside your frameset. And since the content of your <IFRAME> is simply an HTML document, it is as easy to create a menu page for this system as it would be for a page that uses frames.

If the CSS positioning of the menu and content elements give you trouble, you can always revert to enclosing them in a <TABLE>.


<IFRAME>s are easy to use. Just insert some code like the following in your pages where you want the menu to appear:

<iframe src="menu.html" width="200" height="350" scrolling="no" border="0">

Then just change the name of the src file to the name of the file that holds the HTML code that displays your menu. It's best to use complete URLs here to avoid problems on pages where the source page is in a different directory than the menu file.


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