Frames Not Displayed in Internet Explorer 4.x or 5

ID: Q169522

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01, 5 for Windows 95
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01, 5 for Windows NT 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you are using Internet Explorer 4.x or 5 to view a Web page, a blank page may be displayed instead of a defined set of frames. If you right- click an empty area of the Web page and then click View Source, or right- click an empty area of the Web page, click Properties, and then click Analyze, you may receive the following message:

   This document might not display properly because there is a FRAMESET
   within the BODY of the document. The page author can resolve this 
   problem by

   1. Removing the BODY tag.
   2. Insuring that there is no additional HTML code
      between the HEAD of the document and the FRAMESET.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs if the author of the Web page has mistakenly located the <FRAMESET> tag after the <BODY> tag in the main or "framing" Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document.

RESOLUTION

Contact the Web page author (or the administrator of the Web server) and request all <FRAMESET> tags and their underlying instructions be moved so that they precede any <BODY> tags.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

The framing HTML document defines the frame regions to be displayed in the browser and the documents or objects that initially appear in the frames.

For information about the HTML syntax for frames, see the following Web site:

   http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-frames-970331.html

Additional query words: 4.00

Keywords          : kbdisplay msiew95 msient 
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: March 20, 1999