Help with Frames


If you are using frames for the first time, it is probably a good idea to go through this page.

Frames allow more than one page to be downloaded on your browser screen at any given instant. For example, at present you can see that the screen is divided into two frames. The person who writes the HTML code decides in which frame does a particular click downloads a particular page.

For this manual, the left hand frame always displays the contents menu and the right hand frame is the actual display window. If you want to get out of the frames click on TOPOG Home or Chapter Headings in the contents menu (ie., the left hand side frame).


How to go back?

If you are using Netscape 2.0 pop up the alternate menu by clicking the right hand button of your mouse while keeping the mouse cursor in the required frame (mac users press your mouse button a little longer). The alternate menu will have options to go backward or forward within a frame window. Remember with Netscape 2.0 the normal back button on the top will take you out of the frames.

Netscape 3.0 users do not need to worry about anything. The options in alternate pop up menu and the back or forward button on the top behave in a similar fashion.

How to print a particular page?

You can print a particular page with the same ease as if there were only one page on the browser screen. Remember with frames there are more than one page downloaded at any given time. To print a page, click in the frame window in which a particular page is downloaded to make it the active window. Then simply give the print command.

If this doesn't print which probably be the case with mac users there is another way out. Note the section which you want to print. Click on the particular chapter in the contents menu to display the contents of the chapter, which contains your section. Point the mouse cursor onto the clickable text for that particular section and pop up the alternate menu. The bottom of the alternate menu has an option - Copy this Link Location . Activate this option. This will copy the URL (Uniform Resource Locater or http:// address) of the particular chapter, which you can then paste in the Location window of your browser. Then press enter to download the section whose URL you have just pasted. Once downloaded you can print the section easily. Use the normal back button to go back in the frames.

The active window concept doesn't work for reloading. When you press the reload button your browser will download all the pages.

If you have any suggestions to make this online manual more user friendly please let us know.