I have a page that loads an external HTML page into an iFrame. There are two problems I am facing with this:
- The iFrame is always a fixed height, but I want it to expand vertically depending on the height of the content.
- The content inside the iFrame can not inherit the CSS styles attached to the HTML page that contains it. The HTML inside the iFrame has to have it's own link or separate style sheet.
I could be wrong about either of those points, so if I am, please let me know and then I will continue to use the iFrame.
Otherwise, is there a simple Javascript call that can load an external HTML file into a DIV?
Just to be clear, since it seems some people have misunderstood me:
I am asking how to replace an iframe with a DIV and Javascript in order to get the functionality I mention above. I am not looking for ways to make iFrames behave differently.
(I thought this would be fairly common, but most of the questions and information I've found in this site and on the web seems to be situation specific and asks for additional functionality that I don't need and complicates the issue. However, if I've missed something and this is a duplicate, I wouldn't be offended if this got closed.)
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You can make an ajax call to fetch your html page and add it to the div. For example using JQuery:
$.get('yourPage.html', function(data) { $('#yourDiv').html(data); });
Read more at: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/
Use a jQuery plugin to resize the iframe dynamically.
You can't restyle content inside a iframe. What are you planning on using the iframe for? There are often better ways to solve things.
If you want the functionality mentioned you don't have to replace the iframe. The functionality 2 is easier with an iframe. As for functionality 1, you have two choices:
Put your iframe in a DIV and play with css rules like position absolute and relative plus height at 100%
Add a javascript function to handle the resize event of the window object to resize the iframe
I actually wrote up an answer to a different question, that seems to apply here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10012302/166661
You've got a server that will return to you information -- you could place this information in an
IFRAME
... or you can call a JavaScript function to retrieve that information and display it in a location (DIV
) you set aside on your page.Here is a sample HTML page that will retrieve information from the server using AJAX
And here is the info.php that returns the information back to the HTML page:
Hope this helps!