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Freeway Reference: Working with Frames
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Setting frame size to be completely flexible
If you wish to set a frame so that it will be completely flexible in size, set the other frames in the same frameset to be fixed value, and
leave this frame set as a percentage or proportional value. The same result is also attainable by explicitly setting the frame to have a
flexible size:
1. Select the frame.
2. Deselect the Size checkbox in the Current Frame panel of the Inspector palette.
In the HTML output, the size for this frame will now appear as an asterisk (*) rather than as a percentage value (such as 76%).
Making frames that can’t be resized when viewed
To effectively prevent the visitor from resizing the frames in the browser window, you can set the frame border to be 0px using the
Border option in the Frameset Page panel. You can also explicitly instruct the browser to prevent the frame from being resized, and
you must do this in any event to prevent resizing if the frame border is to be left visible.
To set a frame so that it can’t be resized:
1. Select a frame.
2. In the Current Frame panel of the Inspector palette, select the No Resize checkbox.
The selected frame will no longer be resizable even when frame borders are shown. Note that depending on the number of frames in the
same frameset, this may also prevent the neighboring frame from being resized.
Controlling whether frames scroll
There are three settings to control the behavior of a frame if there is more content displayed inside it than can be viewed at one time.
By default, frames are created so that they will automatically display scroll bars if necessary, but if all the content of the page fits into
the available size of the frame, the scroll bars won’t appear; this is called Auto scrolling. You also have the options to set the frame so
that it will permanently display scroll bars—these will be drawn grayed out if the content fits comfortably within the frame—or never to
display scroll bars.
To set the scrolling behavior of a frame
1. Select the frame.
2. In the Current Frame panel, use the Scroll popup to choose from:
Auto: (default) display scroll bars only if necessary.
Yes: always display scroll bars, even if content fits.
No: never show scroll bars, even if content does not fit.
Freeway gives you feedback on the current scrolling behavior in
each frame as follows:
• Frames set to “scroll=Auto” display outline scrollbars and real scroll bars if the source page contents viewed inside the frame don’t fit.
• Frames set to “scroll=Yes” show grayed out versions of scroll bars and real scroll bars if the source page contents don’t fit.
• Frames set to “scroll=No” show nothing, even if the source page contents don’t fit.
When setting the width of an Auto-scrolling frame, you need to allow 10 to 15 pixels extra room inside the frame in addition to the width of
the page contents to be displayed, otherwise it will always display a horizontal scroll bar.
Freeway is designed to try to display correct feedback in these cases, but you should always test your pages in as comprehensive a
range of browsers as possible to ensure that individual differences between browsers don’t cause problems.
Important: When a frame is set to Auto, browsers display scroll bars
even when the content displayed in the frame should theoretically fit
without scrolling. Extra room is required within the frame to prevent scroll
bars appearing.
Note 1: Vertical and horizontal scroll bars don’t always behave identically when there is more content than will
fit inside an
Auto scrolling frame. If content fits comfortably within the width of the frame but the height of the
content exceeds the height of the frame, only a vertical scroll bar will be displayed. However, if the content fits
comfortably within the height of the frame but is excessively wide, both horizontal and vertical scroll bars will
usually be shown.
Note 2: Be very careful when setting the scrolling of a frame to No. If there is overflow content within the frame,
there may be no way for the visitor to display it and no clue that there is content which isn’t being displayed.
Note 3: Different browsers may calculate the size of the content area differently. As ever, try to check your design in
as many browsers on different computer platforms as possible.
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