I made the following change to the outer frameset
to address the white-space issue (note the change from wildcard (*
) to 100% height):
<frameset rows="100%,*" cols="316" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" border="false">
Here's a demo page on my server:
http://jackpattishalljr.com/stackoverflow/terrapene.html
Also, it probably wouldn't hurt to add the frameset doctype (although, this by itself, does not address the whitespace issue you found):
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
P.S. Thanks for this BLAST FROM THE PAST with a frameset question ;)