Editing Frame (World Wide Web) (section)

==Alternatives==

As web technology developed, many of the purposes for which frames were used became possible in ways that avoided the problems identified with frames.

* [[Cascading Style Sheets]] (CSS) allowed elements of a page to be scrolled independently (using the <code>overflow</code> property) or held on screen while other content is scrolled (using <code>position:fixed</code>)
* [[Server-Side Includes]] allowed shared content to be edited once and automatically delivered to the client as part of a finished page; as server CPU and connection speeds increased, the extra work required to do this on the fly became a lesser consideration.
* [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] and web-oriented [[scripting languages]] and [[web development]] frameworks such as [[PHP]] and [[Active Server Pages]], as well as database-backed [[Content Management System]]s such as [[WordPress]], provided much richer options for maintaining content and providing navigation.
* [[Client-side scripting]] and [[Dynamic HTML]] allowed parts of a page to be visually replaced based on a user's actions. This allowed much more flexibility for showing "side" content, such as footnotes or instructions, as these could now be displayed and hidden anywhere on the page rather than requiring a pre-defined frame.
* [[AJAX]] allowed for dynamic display within a page of content even when it needs to be fetched from the server, for instance based on the logged in user or events elsewhere.