What are iFrames

Are they the same as Frames

[Red_Eye]

Sorry this is a stupid Question. What are iFrames is it just another term for Frames?

[SinclairUser]

Redeye,

iFrames are inline frames. They can be inserted into the body of a html page and you can populate the iframe with static html or dynamically via a cgi script etc.

Chris.

[Red_Eye]

Thanks Chris,

I take it then that they are no different from normal frames?

[victor]

They are quite different in the HTML you write -- think more of having a DIV with varying content.

But, like frames, they break the web metaphor of one URL linking (at one time) to a single content dataset -- so they cause much the same headaches for book-marking and search engine indexing.

[Red_Eye]

Thanks Victor - Now I understand