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HTML frames are a way of displaying multiple HTML documents in a single browser window.

A frameset is a special HTML document type that has been designed to display separate HTML documents at the same time within tiles of the window.

Note

Both frame and frameset tags in HTML have been removed from . This has been done because of the fact that they damage usability and accessibility. When frame capability is needed, it is possible to use iframes instead.

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Overcoming "Display forbidden by X-Frame-Options"

I'm writing a tiny webpage whose purpose is to frame a few other pages, simply to consolidate them into a single browser window for ease of viewing. A few of the pages I'm trying to frame forbid being framed and throw a "Refused to display document…
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Why are frames deprecated in html?

HTML has had frames from early days, but they are deprecated in the latest version. Many browsers (I have tried with Internet Explorer) don't even display frames properly. Why has this been done? What was the drawback in frames?
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Detect failure to load contents of an iframe

I can detect when the content of an iframe has loaded using the load event. Unfortunately, for my purposes, there are two problems with this: If there is an error loading the page (404/500, etc), the load event is never fired. If some images or…
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Run JQuery in the context of another frame

The client I am working with has a frameset like so...
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How can I get an element from within a frameset frame using JavaScript?

I need to access and element from within a frameset frame. For example if I have the following markup: How can I get some…
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Java Script, Difficulty getting list of all nested frames in page

Hello I need to get list of all frames for my GreaseMonkey script but in fact i guess it is general Javascript question. It would be great if I could get to every single frame that is nested in page. So far i got problem getting number of frames…
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IE6 Frames & Memory Leak

Before I start this question, I understand that every aspect of it is wrong. Please keep that in mind... I have an CRM-ish intranet application with an integrated soft phone developed in 2001 that I've inherited. It's basically a collections…
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What causes Chrome Timeline Frame to have so much empty white space

Sometimes when I Inspect Element in Google Chrome I find that I have some large frames, but they are filled with white space. Anyone know what often causes such large amounts of empty space? I have seen timers cause issues with extending the…
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Why should I not use HTML frames?

I haven't used frames since 1998. They seem like a bad idea and in all my development I've never had a situation where frames were the right solution, or even a decent solution. However, I'm now working with an internal web application written by…
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When should I use HTML frames?

I have heard countless reasons on why not to use HTML frames, from their lack of accessibility, the general lacking in UX, their being completely inefficient/unmaintainable, or them just being outdated. This all brings me to two questions: Does…
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Can you change a widget's parent in python tkinter?

Is there any way to change a widget's (ttk.frame in this case) parent? I can't find any keywords to use in the widgets .config. Is this not possible in python tkinter? What I'd like functionally is to take my current frame in my tkk.notebook widget,…
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How to communicate between frames?

I'm maintaining an application that goes sort of like this: There is a Page A with a Frame that shows Page B. Now page B is part of a completely different product in a separate domain. Now, they want that when an option in B is clicked, the WHOLE…
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How are the facebook chat windows implemented?

On Facebook you can browse the site without affecting the floating chat windows. Seems like if the main page was inside an iFrame and the footer and chat windows where floating outside. (source: k-director.com) Is the main content inside an iframe…
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How do I reduce frames with blending in ffmpeg

I am trying to convert some files into ProRes. One fairly important part of the conversion is: reducing frames from 60 to 30 blending every 2 frames into one and achieving a more fluent movement. (a simple sort of motion blur) I have tried the…
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JQuery and frames - $(document).ready doesn't work

I have a page, with some code in js and jQuery and it works very well. But unfortunately, all my site is very very old, and uses frames. So when I loaded my page inside a frame, $(document).ready() doesn't fire up. My frameset looks like:
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