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I see that HTML has both a frame tag and an iframe tag. How are they different, and when should one be preferred over the other?

Paul S.
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  • Possible duplicate of [What's the difference between IFrame and Frame?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1079128/whats-the-difference-between-iframe-and-frame) – Shivam Sharma Oct 24 '17 at 12:11

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How are they different?

A frame appears inside a frameset. An iframe appears inside an HTML document that has a <body>.

and when should one be preferred over the other?

They do significantly different things.

Both can break linking/bookmarking (so should be used rarely), but the use cases for regular frames make it more likely that will happen with them than with iframes.

Quentin
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