FP: How to Create Invisible Frames in FrontPage

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows
• Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack
• Microsoft FrontPage for Windows, version 1.1
• Microsoft FrontPage for the Power Macintosh, version 1.0

SUMMARY

The Microsoft FrontPage Frames Wizard does not provide a way to create frames that are invisible or have no border. This article describes how to create invisible frames in FrontPage Editor.

NOTE: Although Microsoft FrontPage 98 no longer uses the Frames Wizard, it ships with a large selection of frames pages you can modify.

MORE INFORMATION

FrontPage 98

To create an invisible frame, follow these steps:

1. Start FrontPage Editor.

2. On the File Menu, Click New.

3. Click the Frames tab.

4. Select the type of frames page you want and then click OK.

5. In the first frame, click Set Initial Page.

6. In the URL box in the Create Hyperlink dialog box, type or select the URL you want, and then click OK.

   For each additional frame, click the Set Initial Page button in the frame you want to change, and then repeat step 6. When you have defined the initial page for each frame, go to step 7.

7. Right-click one of the frames. Click Frame Properties on the menu that appears.

8. Click Frames Page and then click the Frames tab.

9. Click to clear the Show Border check box. Click OK.

FrontPage 97

To create an invisible frame, follow these steps:

1. Start FrontPage Editor.

2. On the File menu, click New.

3. In the Template Or Wizard list, click Frames Wizard, and then click OK.

4. Click Next on each panel of the wizard, until the last panel. On the last panel, click Finish.

5. In FrontPage Explorer, right-click the page you created in steps 1 through 4, and then click Open With.

6. In the Editor list, click FrontPage Editor, and then click OK.

7. On the View menu, click HTML.

8. In the HTML box, locate the <FrameSet> tag, and add the FrameBorder and FrameSpacing attributes so that the tag looks something like this:

   <FRAMESET ROWS="50%,50%" FRAMEBORDER="0" BORDER="0" FRAMESPACING="0">

9. On the File menu, click Save.

FrontPage 1.1

Open the Web page in a text editor, such as Notepad, and insert the <FrameSet> tag. For example, insert this code:

   <FRAMESET ROWS="50%,50%" FRAMEBORDER="0" BORDER="0" FRAMESPACING="0">

FrontPage for the Power Macintosh

To create an invisible frame, follow these steps:

1. Start FrontPage Editor.

2. On the File menu, click New.

3. In the Template Or Wizard list, click Frames Wizard, and then click OK.

4. Click Next on each panel of the wizard, until the last panel. On the last panel, click Finish.

5. In FrontPage Explorer, hold down the CONTROL key and click the page you created in steps 1 through 4.

6. Click Open With.

7. In the Editor list, click FrontPage Editor, and click OK.

8. On the View menu, click HTML.

9. In the HTML box, locate the <FrameSet> tag, and add the FrameBorder and FrameSpacing attributes so that the tag looks something like this:

   <FRAMESET ROWS="50%,50%" FRAMEBORDER="0" BORDER="0" FRAMESPACING="0">

   Click OK.

10. On the File menu, click Save.