Question

Auto resize an iframe for an external site

Asked by: andybrooke

I have difficulties with one of the iframes in my website. I have searched now for days but cant find a solution that works. some say it cant be done others are giving solutions which are not working when i try to impliment them.
I have a website that has in it an iframe which is a questionair and at the end gives results. The size of the initial page is only 450 px high but the results page (the last page in the iframe is over 2000px high.
I do not want to use scroll bars as i want the frame to be invisible so it looks like part of our site.
if i set the iframe to the largest 2000px it makes the 1st page look lost as so much blank area and also we have aditional information below the iframe.
How can i automaticaly get the iframe to adjust its size acording to the content it displays?
The page is a html page.

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2009-09-03 at 03:23:17ID24704040
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Answers

 

by: govindarajan78Posted on 2009-09-03 at 03:48:46ID: 25249297

write a javascript function in the parent page to resize the iframe.

call the function from the the reports page like parent.functionname();

also try
parent.iframename.height inside the result page

 

by: andybrookePosted on 2009-09-03 at 03:54:54ID: 25249325

Hi. I have tried this using several diferent scripts I found online. I cant get any to work! the iframe is:

<iframe onload="window.scroll(0,0);" src="http://products.xelector.com/gab/Utilities/" name="GasElectric" id="GasElectric_iframe" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="802" height="1200"></iframe>

I have tried changing height to 100%
Tried jsscrip
Tried:
function resizeIframe(iframeID) {
if(self==parent) return false; /* Checks that page is in iframe. */
else if(document.getElementById&&document.all) /* Sniffs for IE5+.*/

var FramePageHeight = framePage.scrollHeight + 10; /* framePage
is the ID of the framed page's BODY tag. The added 10 pixels prevent an
unnecessary scrollbar. */

parent.document.getElementById(iframeID).style.height=FramePageHeight;
/* "iframeID" is the ID of the inline frame in the parent page. */
}


Tried:
<script type="text/javascript">

//Input the IDs of the IFRAMES you wish to dynamically resize to match its content height:
//Separate each ID with a comma. Examples: ["myframe1", "myframe2"] or ["myframe"] or [] for none:
var iframeids=["maincntnt"]

//Should script hide iframe from browsers that don't support this script (non IE5+/NS6+ browsers. Recommended):
var iframehide="no"

var getFFVersion=navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")).split("/")[1]
var FFextraHeight=parseFloat(getFFVersion)>=0.1? 3 : 0 //extra height in px to add to iframe in FireFox 1.0+ browsers

function resizeCaller() {
var dyniframe=new Array()
for (i=0; i<iframeids.length; i++){
if (document.getElementById)
resizeIframe(iframeids)
//reveal iframe for lower end browsers? (see var above):
if ((document.all || document.getElementById) && iframehide=="no"){
var tempobj=document.all? document.all[iframeids] : document.getElementById(iframeids)
tempobj.style.display="block"
}
}
}

function resizeIframe(frameid){
var currentfr=document.getElementById(frameid)
if (currentfr && !window.opera){
currentfr.style.display="block"
if (currentfr.contentDocument && currentfr.contentDocument.body.offsetHeight) //ns6 syntax
currentfr.height = currentfr.contentDocument.body.offsetHeight+FFextraHeight;
else if (currentfr.Document && currentfr.Document.body.scrollHeight) //ie5+ syntax
currentfr.height = currentfr.Document.body.scrollHeight;
if (currentfr.addEventListener)
currentfr.addEventListener("load", readjustIframe, false)
else if (currentfr.attachEvent){
currentfr.detachEvent("onload", readjustIframe) // Bug fix line
currentfr.attachEvent("onload", readjustIframe)
}
}
}

function readjustIframe(loadevt) {
var crossevt=(window.event)? event : loadevt
var iframeroot=(crossevt.currentTarget)? crossevt.currentTarget : crossevt.srcElement
if (iframeroot)
resizeIframe(iframeroot.id);
}

function loadintoIframe(iframeid, url){
if (document.getElementById)
document.getElementById(iframeid).src=url
}

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", resizeCaller, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", resizeCaller)
else
window.onload=resizeCaller

</script>





NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK

 

by: andybrookePosted on 2009-09-03 at 04:04:34ID: 25249368

i DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE CONTENT OF THE IFRAME SO CAN'T ADD CODE TO THIS. CAN ONLY ADD ON THE PARENT PAGE. THE IFRAME IS CALLING ON A SITE FROM AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND I DOUBT THEY WOULD ADD CODE TO THE REPORT.
ALSO THE CODE ABOVE IS IN ITS BARE FORM PRIOR TO ALTERING WITH SPECIFICS FOR MY SITE.

 

by: govindarajan78Posted on 2009-09-03 at 04:27:10ID: 25249482

i tested onload event in i frames. its working in my machine.

so using that check if you are able to get the url of the page loading. compare witht the reports page and resize the iframe
hope it works

<html>
 
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
 
<body>
 
<p><iframe name="I1" src="http://localhost/test.asp" onload="alert('working')">
Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.
</iframe></p>
 
</body>
 
</html>

                                              
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by: andybrookePosted on 2009-09-14 at 10:24:34ID: 31624333

I managed to get the owner of the other domain to insert the code so this all worked great.
many thanks

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