frameset doctype and framespacing/border

#1 September 14th, 2005, 10:25 AM

Hi

If i use this doctype:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

i can not use the attributes framespacing and border like this:

<frameset cols ="100%" rows ="20,419,*" framespacing="0" border="0">

But when i leave these, i get those ugly borders :(

Okay, don't use frames (i don't anymore), but i need to know how to
solve this (if at all).

Thanks!

Mark

#2 September 14th, 2005, 11:25 AM

Mark <scheper@xs4all.nl> wrote:
[color=blue]
>If i use this doctype:
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
>"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
>
>i can not use the attributes framespacing and border like this:
>
><frameset cols ="100%" rows ="20,419,*" framespacing="0" border="0">[/color]

Sure you can, but it won't validate against the public DTD.
[color=blue]
>But when i leave these, i get those ugly borders :(
>
>Okay, don't use frames (i don't anymore), but i need to know how to
>solve this (if at all).[/color]

You've provided the best answer yourself.

Other alternatives are accepting the borders, accepting validation
errors against the public DTD, or using a custom DTD.

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Spartanicus

#3 September 14th, 2005, 11:45 AM

Mark schreef:[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> If i use this doctype:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
>
> i can not use the attributes framespacing and border like this:
>
> <frameset cols ="100%" rows ="20,419,*" framespacing="0" border="0">
>
> But when i leave these, i get those ugly borders :([/color]

Try adding frameborder="no" to the <frameset>-line

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Niek

webmaster · #4 March 11th, 2006, 10:04 PM

Hi Mark,
To validate your document you need to use a custom DTD. Framespacing and border are attributes specific of IE (although they also work fine with Firefox). I explain in an article how to create a custom DTD for that only purpose:
http://www.onemillionpound.net/Tools.../link_001.html

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