IFrame with facebook tabs

Question

Hi there,

I want to get iframe application but on top of it, would love to put tabs. and iframe are not really seem compatible. Do you guys know any work around this?

Thanks, Ebe

Answer 1

You can't use an iframe in a Facebook Tab application due to restrictions from Facebook, though in this blog post from mid-August they say they will begin supporting IFrames for Page tabs "in the next few months".

There are other restrictions for applications which live within a Tab too, eg you have to use FBJS methods instead of regular javascript. It's a pain in the neck.

In this presentation, from January, Facebook suggest that if you really need iframe functionality in a Tab you can work around it by not putting your application in the Tab... make a Tab containing just a link to a Canvas Page, where your application can use iframes.

Answer 2

Alternatively if you are talking about a 'tab-style' UI for your application then it is possible with using iframes. Just use javascript to show and hide different content divs.

Here is an example of an app with a tab-style UI (and it's a Tab app, so it can't use iframes): http://www.facebook.com/VansEurope?v=app_122643704452302