Frameset not showing up in FireFox or IE. Fine in Chrome..?

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Dutchie432 picture Dutchie432 · Sep 9, 2010 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

For some reason, this very basic page shows up fine in Chrome, but not FireFox or IE. I've never really needed to use Frames before, but they seem simple enough. Is there a problem with using a single frame within a frameset? I am trying to replace an iFrame with this single frame.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> 
<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
    <frameset cols="*">
      <frame id="aqFrameSlider" src="http://www.alphacommunications.com/alphaquote/index.php?account=J2001&hash=GISDFGSP43HAJ49FH92JSPKJ">
    </frameset>   
  </body>
</html>

Answer

Lekensteyn picture Lekensteyn · Sep 9, 2010

Remove <body> and close <frame> properly:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> 
<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <frameset cols="*">
      <frame id="aqFrameSlider" src="http://www.alphacommunications.com/alphaquote/index.php?account=J2001&hash=GISP43HAJ49FH92JSPKJ"></frame>
    </frameset>
</html>

The next time, you should validate your document first, that would notice this error.

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