HTML `<noframes>` Tag

The <noframes> tag contains an alternate text to be displayed in browsers which do not support frames (defined using <frame> tag). The tag can also contain a link to a non-frameset version of the web site. If the browser supports frames, the <noframes> tag will be ignored.

The <noframes> tag can contain all the HTML elements that can be used inside the <body> element of a normal HTML page.

The <noframes> tag should be nested inside the <frameset> tag.

DANGER

The <noframes> tag is deprecated in HTML5, as framesets are obsolete and no longer supported in modern browsers.

TIP

To be sure that a page containing frames is valid, set <!DOCTYPE> to "HTML Frameset DTD" or "XHTML Frameset DTD".

Syntax

The <noframes> tag comes in pairs. The content is written between the opening (<noframes>) and closing (</noframes>) tags.

Example of the HTML `<noframes>` tag:

HTML <noframes> Tag

html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
  </head>
  <frameset cols="50%,50%">
    <frame src="https://www.w3docs.com/learn-html.html">
    <noframes>Sorry, your browser doesn’t support frames. </noframes>
  </frameset>
</html>

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Result

noframes example

Attributes

The <noframes> tag only uses the Global Attributes. Note that these attributes are also deprecated in HTML5.

Practice

What is the main usage of the <noframes> tag in HTML?

It is used to specify alternate content for users that have disabled frames in their browser or have a browser that doesn't support frames.It is used to add images to a website.It is used to add hyperlinks to a website.It is used to specify a portion of a website that should not be displayed.

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