Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 152)

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Layout and design
Last updated 6/3/2015
You may also want to set some frame attributes, such as the title attribute (which is not the same as the name attribute),
to improve accessibility. You can enable the accessibility authoring option for frames to set attributes when you create
frames, or you can set attributes after inserting a frame. To edit accessibility attributes for a frame, use the Tag inspector
to edit the HTML code directly.
View or set frame properties
1 Select a frame by doing one of the following:
• Alt-click (Windows) or Shift-Option-click (Macintosh) a frame in the Document window’s Design view.
• Click a frame in the Frames panel (Window > Frames).
2 In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), click the expander arrow in the lower-right corner to see all of the
frame properties.
3 Set the frame Property inspector options.
Frame Name The name used by a link’s target attribute or by a script to refer to the frame. A frame name must be a
single word; underscores (_) are allowed, but hyphens (-), periods (.), and spaces are not. A frame name must start
with a letter (as opposed to a numeral). Frame names are case-sensitive. Don’t use terms that are reserved words in
JavaScript (such as top or navigator) as frame names.
To make a link change the contents of another frame, you must name the target frame. To make it easier to create
cross-frame links later, name each of your frames when you create it.
Src Specifies the source document to display in the frame. Click the folder icon to browse to and select a file.
Scroll Specifies whether scroll bars appear in the frame. Setting this option to Default doesn’t set a value for the
corresponding attribute, allowing each browser to use its default value. Most browsers default to Auto, meaning that
scroll bars appear only when there is not enough room in a browser window to display the full contents of the
current frame.
No Resize Prevents visitors from dragging the frame borders to resize the frame in a browser.
Note: You can always resize frames in Dreamweaver; this option applies only to visitors viewing the frames in a browser.
Borders Shows or hides the borders of the current frame when it’s viewed in a browser. Selecting a Borders option
for a frame overrides the frameset’s border settings.
Border options are Yes (show borders), No (hide borders), and Default; most browsers default to showing borders,
unless the parent frameset has Borders set to No. A border is hidden only when all frames that share the border have
Borders set to No, or when the parent frameset’s Borders property is set to No and the frames sharing the border
have Borders set to Default.
Border Color Sets a border color for all of the frame’s borders. This color applies to all borders that touch the frame,
and overrides the specified border color of the frameset.
Margin Width Sets the width in pixels of the left and right margins (the space between the frame borders and the
content).
Margin Height Sets the height in pixels of the top and bottom margins (the space between the frame borders and
the content).
Note: Setting the margin width and height for a frame is not the same as setting margins in the Modify > Page Properties
dialog box.
To change the background color of a frame, set the background color of the document in the frame in page
properties.