Any Way of Using Frames in HTML5

Any way of using frames in HTML5?

Now, there are plenty of example of me answering questions with essays on why following validation rules are important. I've also said that sometimes you just have to be a rebel and break the rules, and document the reasons.

You can see in this example that framesets do work in HTML5 still. I had to download the code and add an HTML5 doctype at the top, however. But the frameset element was still recognized, and the desired result was achieved.

Therefore, knowing that using framesets is completely absurd, and knowing that you have to use this as dictated by your professor/teacher, you could just deal with the single validation error in the W3C validator and use both the HTML5 video element as well as the deprecated frameset element.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <!-- frameset is deprecated in html5, but it still works. -->
    <frameset framespacing="0" rows="150,*" frameborder="0" noresize>
        <frame name="top" src="http://www.npscripts.com/framer/demo-top.html" target="top">
        <frame name="main" src="http://www.google.com" target="main">
    </frameset>
</html>

Keep in mind that if it's a project for school, it's most likely not going to be something that will be around in a year or two once the browser vendors remove frameset support for HTML5 completely. Just know that you are right and just do what your teacher/professor asks just to get the grade :)

UPDATE:

The toplevel parent doc uses XHTML and the frame uses HTML5. The validator did not complain about the frameset being illegal, and it didn't complain about the video element.

index.php:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <frameset framespacing="0" rows="150,*" frameborder="0" noresize>
        <frame name="top" src="http://www.npscripts.com/framer/demo-top.html" target="top">
        <frame name="main" src="video.html" target="main">
    </frameset>
</html>

video.html:

<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="player-container">
            <div class="arrow"></div>
            <div class="player">

                <video id="vid1" width="480" height="267" 
                    poster="http://cdn.kaltura.org/apis/html5lib/kplayer-examples/media/bbb480.jpg"
                    durationHint="33" controls>
                    <source src="http://cdn.kaltura.org/apis/html5lib/kplayer-examples/media/bbb_trailer_iphone.m4v" />

                    <source src="http://cdn.kaltura.org/apis/html5lib/kplayer-examples/media/bbb400p.ogv" />

                </video>

        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Frames in HTML5

You should definitely try not to use deprecated elements. They will behave inconsistently, and probably won't work in the future. There's also a very good reason why frames are deprecated.

You probably need to rethink how you're structuring your data. An HTML page should be as simple and to-the-point as possible. If you have to pull in a significant amount of content from other web-pages using frames, you're doing it wrong. In most cases it's better to simply link to the extra content.

If you're trying to use frames to pull in the <header> or the <nav>, so you don't have to simply copy them across multiple pages, although I applaud you for trying to be DRY, this is the wrong way to do it. Just copying these sections into all your documents is a better solution than using frames.

Ideally though, you'd use a server-side templating system of some sort. The simplest one (depending on your setup) may be Server-Side Includes.

Having said all that, if you really need frames, the <iframe> element is perfectly valid in HTML5 and may help you out.

Html5 frames alternative

You can use Iframes for this:

<iframe src="http://example.com/form.php" name="myform"> // or src="path/to/your/form.php"

// the content of your Iframe goes here...

</iframe>

http://www.quackit.com/html_5/tags/html_iframe_tag.cfm

http://webdesign.about.com/od/iframes/a/html5-iframe-attributes.htm

Any Way of Using Frames in HTML5