Tables and Frames
In This Chapter Organizing table information
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Examining some tricks with tables Exploring frames: pages within pages Working with iframes
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f you’ve been diligently reading each chapter of this book so far, I have good news! You’ve reached the point where many Web-page design consultants, as recently as two or three years ago, considered themselves experts. From this point on, we look at a wide variety of different advanced formatting features starting in this chapter with two essentials for modern site design: tables and frames. Most interestingly, at this point in the book I have primarily covered the specifics of HTML 1, HTML 1.1, and HTML 2.0, although I’ve delved a tiny bit into some features that showed up in HTML 3.2, along with providing a decent sampling of Cascading Style Sheets information. Can you keep all these numbers straight? I can’t. Remember, the sequence was 1, 1.1, 2.0, 3.2, and now 4.0. For some cryp tic reason, there was never a 3.0 release of the HTML standard. Along the way, the two formatting capabilities covered in this chapter—tables and frames—brought about some of the most dramatic improvements in Web site design. As you read this chapter and see the examples, you should begin to see why.
Organizing Information in Tables Tables are an important addition to HTML that originated in the development labs at Netscape Communications Corporation. Unlike the tables in your favorite word processor, however, HTML tables can be quite compelling. You may even find