rowspan with frame?

[Busken]

When I use <table> at my site, its no problem to do rowspan.
How do I do it with
<frameset rows="42,12,25,6,20,4,148,6,505,19,8,8,10"

in this col i want it to be one row..

 

[ChrisHunt]

You're building a frameset with 13 frames in it? Some of them 4 or 6 pixels high? What are you trying to achieve? There must be a better way!

There isn't an equivalent of rowspan or colspan for framesets. You have to nest one frameset inside another to get that kind of effect.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[JontyMC]

I've never understood why people use framesets. Whats a good argument for them?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Whats a good argument for them?

I've used them extensively in a lot of intranet apps for clients to submit / receive data to / from a server without having to navigate away from a page (hidden / communication frames).

Dan

 

[JontyMC]

Can't you just call the same page you're on to do that?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

No. If you want to, for example, have a search box that can display employee names - and the company has 100,000 employees... you do not want to load them all in. You use the hidden frame to communicate with the server to pull a subset down as the user types more keypresses.

Dan

 

[JontyMC]

You can still do that by calling the page again.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Not without navigating away from the page you can't. If you want to do this searchinig seamlessly, you have to use either frames or an iframe... and frames are more widely supported.

Do you really think that any user would choose to press a key, and have the page dissapear on them, only to be re-loaded, over pressing a key and having instant search results? I don't know of any that would.

Dan

 

[JontyMC]

OK, that's a sound reason for using a frame. I can't see a reason for using 13 frames though.

 

[CliveC]

JontyMC & Busken

see faq215-5692

Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[JontyMC]

Hmmmmm. Those reasons are not very convincing. I totally disagree with the first 3 points about when you should use a frameset. I think they should only be used when necessary, such as in this case, when you want to change some info without reloading the page.