If the framework is supposed to be a grid, and the boxes in the grid will contain text, you probably want to create a table.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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Framework: as in (DPS) Digital Publishing and html framework?

Wireframe?

Your English is obviously fine, Niels - problems with mutual comprehension are usually far worse with North American monolinguals. In those cases we also ask for those people to use images, or longer descriptions, so we know what is being requested.

The term "framework" (which I assure you is still used in English!) covers a lot of territory.

Maybe you simply want to add a 6mm stroke around a 130mm x 100mm frame?

aha!

Well, a picture is supposedly worth a thousand words, so here's 2,000 for you:

I made a rectangle with 6mm width to visually estimate the stroke weight. It's really easy to get InDesign to show object dimensions in millimeters, but I couldn't figure out how to specify stroke weight in millimeters in a reasonable amount of time. So 17 points is my close-enough guess as to how to specify a 6mm stroke.

That picture of two squares right underneath the tab of the "Swatches" panel will let you select whether you're choosing a color for the frame edge (stroke) or the inside of the frame (fill).

Any questions?

First, draw your rectangular frame. I'd use the Rectangle tool shown in the first screenshot. You can draw it - or, if you just choose the Rectangle tool and click once on the page, you'll get that dialog box in my first screenshot where you can tell it to draw a rectangle with your preferred dimensions.

Then, select that rectangle with the Selection tool (the black pointer). You can then open up the Stroke panel (Window -> Stroke) and input your stroke weight.