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**jason_bristol** · 05-29-2007, 04:04 PM

At work i'm finishing off a site someone else did. It uses frames and I don't know much about frames.
All I what to do is center the contained elements. As the moment they have just been given a left margin which looks rubbish on either v.small or v.large monitor.
Can anybody help me.
And what does the cols="15%,80%" mean?

The code is below

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>LGV</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-color: #0E2B8D;
}
-->
</style></head>

<frameset cols="15%,80%" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0">
  <frame src="blank.htm" name="blank" scrolling="no" id="blank">
  <frameset cols="800,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0">
    <frameset rows="140,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0">
      <frame src="menu.htm" name="menu" scrolling="no" id="menu">
      <frame src="lgv.htm" name="info" id="info">
    </frameset>
    <frame src="blank.htm" name="blank" scrolling="no" id="blank">
  </frameset>
</frameset>
<noframes><body>
</body></noframes>
</html>

Thanks jason

**LadynRed** · 05-29-2007, 04:16 PM

Quote:

what does the cols="15%,80%" mean?

It means the 2 columns take up 15% and 80% of the available screen space respectively - or 95% of the total. In that code, blank.htm is being loaded twice, the first would be 15% wide, the 2nd 80%, with the 1st holding a split frameset inside it.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_frames.asp

That is one ugly mess of nested frames ! Does it have to stay that way ??
Is that all the code, css and html ?

**jason_bristol** · 05-29-2007, 05:26 PM

Thanks for that link. I quickly went through the tutorial. Now I understand it. But I still can't think of how to center the middle section.

here's an image of what it looks like

I can't make changes to the frames now because i've only got an hour or two with this site tomorrow morning.

**LadynRed** · 05-29-2007, 05:53 PM

Have you tried doing this in your stylesheet ?

body{
text-align: center; }

Dunno if it'll work.. never tried doing that with frames. Is the site live ?

**jason_bristol** · 05-29-2007, 06:28 PM

No, that doesn't work. I'll just say it can't be done. The site is live but for various reasons I don't want to put either a reference or link to the site here.
Thanks anyway.

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