karthikeyan

The iframe element creates an inline frame that contains another document.

Example

<iframe
src ="/default.asp"
width="100%">
</iframe>

bfluid

You can also do custome heights and widths using this:


<iframe
src ="http://www.example.com/yourpage.php"
width="342"
height="500"
>
</iframe>

yankee456

many things can be dome in iframe like disabling and enabling scrolling it is really useful but simply useless for seo but it will worsen ur seo so everyone recommends not to use it

Albino

iframes are horrible, never use them :(

suresh

yes it may look like a popup but this are just like spam I dont like iframes

Maverick

I don't like using iframes. It may be very easy to use, but I prefer coding something good with PHP.

Arch3r25

I like iframes. I find that they are especially useful with AJAX, because you can set a frame to refresh itself with JavaScript....that's really convenient.

J0ker

Some other attributes:
frameborder (border around frame, defaults to 1, set to 0 to remove)
width
height
style (add CSS to it)
name (to be used to identify it)

How to have a link change page in iFrame:

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weblord

for those who love iframes like i do
here's some more parameters

marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="468" height="336" border="0" frameborder="0" style="border:none;" scrolling="no"

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J0ker

I would suggest leaving scrolling=no out, making it default to the "auto" value, which basically means it will scroll if the page inside doesn't fit, otherwise it won't, as you wont want half a page iframed, would you?

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yeah those are the possibilities, yes, no and auto, thanks for the headsup, i just copied the iframe code from my amazon.com affiliate account btw.

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J0ker

I would think Amazon of all places would be beyond the use of iFrames and using includes in PHP which are much more efficient.

This does the same but without having a frame, meaning instead of it being a page inside of a page, it just grabs the content of one page and puts it in another, avoiding and problems with styling,etc.. between the two pages that can be quite annoying as well as specifically specified heights and widths.

Another tip is if you are for example in a table or something and are using an iframe you can set the width and height to 100% to take up the whole area of the table, this can be very useful when you don't want to name an exact height and width, but rather it to just be fluid.

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litrail

AJAX is when you use XMLHTTPRequest javascript object to get and send data, not self-refreshing frames.

SpOrTsDuDe.Reese

In my professional opinion, iframes should only be used when the iframes are translating another page, or when a shoutbox is used or some sort of chat mechanism.

anantshri

I agree with this and this is what i do, I fell in love with php due to this include function only.
and keeping design fluid is always a good idea, coz it allows easy transaction between screen resolutions.

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J0ker

Yeah iFrames are a good alternative to people who don't know php and similar, however any big name site won't use them.

Also, yes AJAX is just Javascript with database capabilities, but yeah switching between frame with javascript is cool, but you can do a similar effect without even using a frame!

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CoolGuy

I find Iframe makes it easy to fit in things without having to go into tedious coding. It's easy to fit it in and looks good.

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Iframe is Inline Frame.

With frames, you can display more than one Web page in the same browser window.

Frames
With frames, you can display more than one HTML document in the same browser window. Each HTML document is called a frame, and each frame is independent of the others.

The disadvantages of using frames are:

The web developer must keep track of more HTML documents
It is difficult to print the entire page

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The Frameset Tag
The <frameset> tag defines how to divide the window into frames
Each frameset defines a set of rows or columns
The values of the rows/columns indicate the amount of screen area each row/column will occupy

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The Frame Tag
The <frame> tag defines what HTML document to put into each frame
In the example below we have a frameset with two columns. The first column is set to 25% of the width of the browser window. The second column is set to 75% of the width of the browser window. The HTML document "frame_a.htm" is put into the first column, and the HTML document "frame_b.htm" is put into the second column:

<frameset cols="25%,75%">
<frame src="frame_a.htm">
<frame src="frame_b.htm">
</frameset>

Note: The frameset column size value can also be set in pixels (cols="200,500"), and one of the columns can be set to use the remaining space (cols="25%,*").



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Basic Notes - Useful Tips
If a frame has visible borders, the user can resize it by dragging the border. To prevent a user from doing this, you can add noresize="noresize" to the <frame> tag.

Add the <noframes> tag for browsers that do not support frames.

Important: You cannot use the <body></body> tags together with the <frameset></frameset> tags! However, if you add a <noframes> tag containing some text for browsers that do not support frames, you will have to enclose the text in <body></body> tags! See how it is done in the first example below.

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Web Development assignment by using frameset tag in xhtml


Check the above link and tell me about these frames. either these or iframe or the simple frames. I have create these frames last year when i was preparing my assignment...

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<html>
<body>
The material below comes from the website Example Web Page
<iframe src="http://example.com" height="200">
Alternative text for browsers that do not understand IFrames.
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

The source you want to link in the iframe is in the <iframe src=" ">

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