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HTML: iframe to work as solid as a frame

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I'm sorry, but I have to question your means to reaching your goal. Why do you need an iframe in the first place? Can the problem in question be solved with ajax and/or a scrollable div element?

With

div.scroll { overflow: scroll; }

in your css, you can make the contents of any div scroll just like an iframe. With the help of jQuery, making cross-browser compatible AJAX request is peanuts. =)

Please be more specific: exactly what is it that you want to accomplish with the iframe?

Tomas Lycken 2009-02-08 11:46:06

Thanks for your reply. My primary need to have a way to build a wrapper of all pages. That's why I need either a frame or iframe. :-)

Timothy Chung 2009-02-08 11:56:54

OK. Are you using any type of server-side scripting, like php or ASP.NET? If so, you should be able to do the work on the server side, before returning the data to the client - for example, ASP.NET has the Masterpages.If you're only using html, I'd recommend jQuery AJAX. Most users today allow js.

Tomas Lycken 2009-02-08 12:26:38

The problem is that I am building a wrapper of pages I do not own. So I cannot use the technique you suggested. :-)

Timothy Chung 2009-02-10 13:37:50

Why not? If they're designed to fit in the iframe, they should fit just as well in a div. If you can get them to the iframe with a regular call, you can get them to the div with an ajax call.

Tomas Lycken 2009-02-10 13:40:23

I am having the exact same problem. So far I have a partial solution involving lots of goofy javascript. The idea is to copy your drop down menus to the other frame....http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2715447/how-can-i-programmatically-copy-all-of-the-style-attributes-from-one-dom-element

stu 2010-04-28 11:21:58

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