I have this code of an iframe displaying a google docs document:
<div itemprop="description" class="col-xs-12 no-h-padding" id="article_desc" style="margin:0 auto; width:90%; float:none;">
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://example.com/docs/1.pdf&hl=ar&embedded=true" scrolling="no"></iframe>
</div>
The iFrame works great and display the following iFrame:
Now i want to change the grey background as seen in the picture above into a white background color, i've been searching for a solution and i come up with this, but it's not working, the background turned white (with my custom css) but google docs didn't work and it displayed a message telling me "something went wrong" inside of the iFrame.
Does anybody know how can i change the grey background color ?
EDIT It works on Google Chrome and Opera but not on Firefox nor Safari.
I can't say for certain whether this is the issue or not, but, because it's appearing differently in different browsers, I'm inclined to believe it's a matter of CSS normalizing/resetting. This answer has a script for doing that, and several more are in the comments, so I recommend checking it out.
Following points can be noted in this scenario regarding styling the iframes:
Following link has more details and script examples which can be used in this scenario: How to apply CSS to iframe?
Google docs is currently happy to serve published documents via CORS requests.
By placing the folowing script tag at the bottom of your
<body>
, all your google docs iframes will be replaced by plain divs containing your documents.No more iframe restrictions. CSS will work as expected.