Disabling turbo drive on body with `data-turbo="false"` stops frames from working

@radanskoric Radan Skorić
Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:57:14 +0000

@janpeterka that sounds like an issue with your application. I have a very similar situation on a project: Drive is globally disabled but I still use Frames. Not only are Frames working just fine but full drive behaviour is automatically enabled inside the Frame.

Unless you’re literally setting data-turbo=”false” on the frame element itself, the frames should work just fine even if inside an element where it is disabled.

Btw, depending on how you want to enable Turbo, you might find the root meta attribute useful, it allows you do enable Turbo on a subsection of your site, based on the path prefix: Turbo Handbook