Frameset not showing when text is added outside it

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18389689

  •  26-06-2022
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Question

In the HTML code below, the frameset doesn't appear, but only the text "abc" appears. However, if the text "abc" is removed from the code, the frameset appears. I don't understand why that happens. Shouldn't the frameset appear below the text "abc"? 

<html>
<head>

abc

<frameset border=0 cols="170,*">
<frame marginwidth=10 src="navigation.html" name="left" scrolling=auto>
</frameset>

</head>
</html>
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Solution

The document is invalid.

You can have either a <body> or <frameset>, not both. Any non-metadata text must appear in the <body> or <noframes> element.

So no, the frameset shouldn't appear below the abc. The abc tells the browser that this is a regular HTML document with regular content and not a frameset document.

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