NOFRAMES Description:
The NOFRAMES tag indicates the content to be displayed in browser agents that don’t support frames. You should use the NOFRAMES tag whenever you build a frameset. The NOFRAMES tag makes your frames accessible and more SEO friendly.
NOFRAMES Web Browser Support:
- Chrome 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Firefox 1, 2, 3
- Internet Explorer 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Netscape 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
- Opera 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- Safari 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
HTML Versions
NOFRAMES Attributes:
NOFRAMES End Tag:
NOFRAMES Contents:
html body text. The following tags are valid within the NOFRAMES tag:
a,
abbr,
acronym,
address,
applet,
b,
basefont,
bdo,
big,
blockquote,
br,
button,
center,
cite,
code,
dfn,
dir,
div,
dl,
em,
fieldset,
font,
form,
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6,
hr,
i,
iframe,
img,
input,
isindex,
kbd,
label,
map,
menu,
noscript,
object,
ol,
p,
pre,
q,
s,
samp,
script,
select,
small,
span,
strike,
strong,
sub,
sup,
table,
textarea,
tt,
u,
ul,
var
NOFRAMES Valid Context:
The NOFRAMES tag is valid within the following tags:
frameset
NOFRAMES Usage:
two column frameset with noframes section
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>A Framed Page</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="30%,*" scrolling="auto">
<frame src="frame1.html" />
<frame src="frame2.html" />
<noframes>
This page is framed, please go here: <a href="frame2.html">frame2.html</a> for the content.
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
NOFRAMES Special Notes:
- Using the noframes tag is critical to keep your pages accessible. An easy thing to do is to have a link to the main page of the site as in the above example.

