Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 - Manual (Page 272)

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3. Select a document to open in the frame, and click OK (Windows) or Choose (Macintosh).
4. (Optional) To make this document the default document to display in the frame when the frameset is opened in a browser, save the
frameset.
Save frame and frameset files
Before you can preview a frameset in a browser, you must save the frameset file and all of the documents that will display in the frames. You can
save each frameset file and framed document individually, or you can save the frameset file and all documents appearing in frames at once.
Note: When you use visual tools in Dreamweaver to create a set of frames, each new document that appears in a frame is given a default
filename. For example, the first frameset file is named UntitledFrameset-1, while the first document in a frame is named UntitledFrame-1.
Save a frameset file
Select the frameset in the Frames panel or the Document window.
To save the frameset file, select File > Save Frameset.
To save the frameset file as a new file, select File > Save Frameset As.
Note: If the frameset file has not previously been saved, these two commands are equivalent.
Save a document that appears in a frame
Click in the frame, then select File > Save Frame or File > Save Frame As.
Save all files associated with a set of frames
Select File > Save All Frames.
This saves all open documents in the frameset, including the frameset file and all framed documents. If the frameset file has not yet been saved, a
heavy border appears around the frameset (or the unsaved frame) in the Design view, and you can select a filename.
Note: If you used File > Open in Frame to open a document in a frame, then when you save the frameset, the document you opened in the frame
becomes the default document to be displayed in that frame. If you don’t want that document to be the default, don’t save the frameset file.
View and set frame properties and attributes
Use the Property inspector to view and set most frame properties, including borders, margins, and whether scroll bars appear in frames. Setting a
frame property overrides the setting for that property in a frameset.
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
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