The Internet Explorer (version 3 and above) has introduced the concept of floating frames. These are much like standard frames, except they can be anywhere within a standard HTML document. A floating frame must be enclosed within <IFRAME> ... </IFRAME> elements. Any HTML between the start and end elements will be displayed by browsers that do not support floating frames, while the frame specified in the <IFRAME> elements will be displayed by those browsers that do.

For example :

<IFRAME NAME="content_frame" width="488" height="244" SRC="welcome.htm">This site uses floating frames</IFRAME>

The above HTML fragment would display the file "content_frame" in Internet Explorer, but would display the text 'This site uses floating frames' to any other browser.

The other main difference between floating and normal frames, is that floating frames accept WIDTH, HEIGHT and standard <IMG> HSPACE, VSPACE and ALIGN attributes, to set the display size and alignment of the frame within the document. They can have other files loaded into them exactly as normal frames (by use of the TARGET attribute in the link and the NAME attribute of the frame).

For an example of floating frames, see the examples page

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