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Choose your frame target from the Property inspector??™s Target drop-down list.
The generic nature of these reserved target names enables you to use them repeatedly on different Web
pages, without having to code a particular reference each time.
A phenomenon known as recursive frames can be dangerous to your site setup. For example, say
you have a frameset named index_frame.html. If you include a link to index_frame.html
in any frame on your current page and leave the target empty or set the target as _self, when the user selects
that link, the entire frameset loads into the current frame??”including another link to index_frame.html.
Browsers can handle about three or four iterations of this recursion before they crash. To avoid the problem, set
your frameset target to _top.
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Adding Advanced Design Features Part III
Targeting specific frames in your frameset
Recall the importance of naming each frame in your frameset. After you have entered a name in the Name
text box of the Frame Property inspector, Dreamweaver dynamically updates the Target list to include that
name. This feature enables you to target specific frames in your frameset in the same manner that you target
the reserved names noted previously.
Although you can always type the frame name directly in the Target text box, the drop-down list comes in
handy for this task.
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