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    Default Frames

    Im sorry if this has been covered before I may be search dumb in finding it. But can WD do frames? Was one of the minor features of dreamweaver i liked. If it cant then thats a request for update then.

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    Xara Web Designer is focused on the absolute positioning of design elements to ensure true WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) across the various currently popular browsers. As far as I am aware, xWD does not support frames.

    The concept of frames is cool, but the real world implementation is invariably inadequate.

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    Web Designer can link to frames (see attached).

    But I bet there is an easy workaround in WD.

    What do you like about frames? Perhaps we can work backwards.
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    It's kind of odd isn't it that WD includes the 'Open Link In' targets for framesets when WD cannot itself create these framesets. 'Framesets' are HTML methods.

    Of course you can add iframes via a placeholder, these iframes can load content from a named page in your web design, so you can build a kind of frameset in this way.
    Eg: A placeholder to load a page named menu.htm in an iframe, a placeholder to load a page named main.htm in an iframe and so on.


    Here's a (rough and ready) example of what I mean.
    Open it in Web Designer and then preview.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sledger View Post
    It's kind of odd isn't it that WD includes the 'Open Link In' targets for framesets when WD cannot itself create these framesets. 'Framesets' are HTML methods.
    Yes, WD does not produce framesets, but these options allow for creating WD pages that can be used within framesets.

    Generally, frameset concept is mostly deprecated.W3C does not recommend using frameset pages no more.
    John.

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    Steve - That is a good work around.

    Could you achieve the same thing with layers?

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    I can't think why not. Though layering might get tricky.

    The 'page' method might be is easier to get your head around when migrating from Dreamweaver's HTML 'frameset' mindset?
    It's certainly easy to re edit in WD and see everything without having to hide/unhide layers.

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    A really compelling discussion with an excellent example. Thank you (all) for your dedication to this forum. BTW - where does the green come from on the mouseover? Chris

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    Quote Originally Posted by syntagm View Post
    BTW - where does the green come from on the mouseover? Chris
    Web Properties>>Website [tab]
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    Default Re: Frames

    Nice one, Steve. Thanks for sharing your frameset example.
    Regards, Albert G. Kubbenga

 

 

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