About frames and framesets

The viewer includes a left-hand pane that displays the Contents, Index, and Search tabs and a right-hand pane that displays the topic content. You can also design framesets and include them in your project to further customize navigation. When you work with this feature, you create both frames and a frameset:

The frameset tells the viewer how to display the frames and which topics to display inside each one. Topics that are displayed in the frames are the frame source topics. Microsoft’s HTML Help viewer, Internet Explorer 4.x (or later), Netscape Navigator 4.x (or later), and the JavaHelp viewer support frames.

Linking to frames involves linking to a frameset and to specific frames. Clicking a link to a frame opens the destination topic inside one of the frames, leaving the other frames unchanged. The frame in which the link opens is the target frame.

Tips for working with framesets: