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    BRIDGE BACK

                      1.   Have you ever filled out a form while shopping online or signing up for a game? What kind of
                          details were you asked to enter?

                      2.   Imagine you’re looking at different websites at the same time. Have you seen a web page split into
                          sections showing different things? What do you think this layout helps with?

                     In your previous class, you learnt how to arrange
                     data  on  a web page  using lists and tables  for
                     better organisation. In this chapter, you’ll explore
                     more exciting HTML features, such as dividing a       The HTML ecosystem has evolved since 1991,
                     page  into  sections  with frames and  collecting     adding new features to help web developers

                     user data through forms.                              improve  applications.  The latest  version,
                                                                           HTML5, was released in 2014.

                            FRAMES IN HTML5

                     A frame is used to display another web pages. In other words, a frame embeds another document
                     within the current HTML document in a rectangular region. The <IFRAME> tag defines an inline
                     frame. It is a container tag. The syntax for using the <IFRAME> tag is as follows:

                     <IFRAME SRC="URL" NAME="DESCRIPTION">......</IFRAME>
                     The uses of inline frames are:
                                                                                                  SHORT SIGN
                         You can use it to embed Google Maps within your web page.
                                                                                                 To search for code in
                         You can embed multimedia content.
                                                                                                a Notepad document:
                         You can include coding examples from other websites.                          Ctrl + F
                         You can display external web pages within your web page.

                     The following table lists the attributes of the <IFRAME> tag:

                         Attribute Name             Values                             Description

                      SRC                      URL or file path   It is used to specify the URL of the web page that
                                                                  you want to display in the frame.
                      ALLOWFULLSCREEN          No value needed It specifies whether the frame opens in full screen.

                      HEIGHT or WIDTH          Value in pixels    It specifies the height and width of the embedded
                                               or percentage      frame, with  default  values  of  150px  and  300px,
                                                                  respectively.
                      NAME                     Name of the        It specifies the frame’s name and is used to create

                                               frame              links targeting the frame.

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