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This is just a quick lesson on how to make links that will break out of your frames. Think about this: You have some links to search engines on your site. These pages were be designed to take up a whole screen, not be put in your frames. How do you code a link that will break an external page out of your frames? The answer is with the <a> tag's TARGET attribute. There is a special "_top" value that will load a link in the same browser window, but outside your frames.
<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_top> The link above will open Google's main page outside your frames. It will take over the whole browser screen. It's the "_top" part that does this. It refers to the "top" of the frameset -- the parent window. Don't forget the underscore (_) preceding "top". You can also get around this problem by using the target="_blank" that you learned in Beginning HTML. Most webmasters code their sites to be viewed in a full browser screen, not someone else's frames. So, be kind to other webmasters -- especially your fellow Punkists -- and let their sites have a whole window by using a TARGET of "_blank" or "_top" in your links to them. Now, with that out of the way, you should be ready for a quick review and frames exam.
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