Alternative to iframes for web page previews?

TWilsonRipsom · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

Is there an alternative to iframes for having a functional preview window for another page showing on an HTML/CSS page? If so can they be as easily sized and positioned as an iframe? Do you have the coding to do it?

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 92 Location: Nord Italy

It is great the 'old' and not-much known:

<div style="height: ; width: ; overflow: auto;">
</div>

But You can NOT call a web page else via URL to appear inside that div.
You put content inside the div tag, in writing the document
and the overflow: auto; will do the trick to make vertical and horizontal scroll-bars to appear, based on the content and the size You assign the div.

Play with pixel, at first; if so, overflow: auto; works everywhere.
Sizing the div in percentuage instead, won't works if You place it inside a table cell.
Strange a thing, many many ones crashed their head on ...

TWilsonRipsom · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

Unfortunately, I need to have another page opening in the frame but every time I load the page it jumps to that frame instead of jumping to the top of the page.

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 92 Location: Nord Italy

It shouldn't do !

By the way, there is some <a href="#"></a> to <a name=""></a> anchor in play ?
These ones yes, tend to align to the top if page is heigh enough to get scrolling rail.

Have a look if the URLs end with #(stuff), the main-page URL and the URL You entered in the iframe to be called.

An other cause might be kind of style="position: ;" in some element; but I think this as the last.

TWilsonRipsom · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

Thanks, that was the problem. It was going to an anchor tag within a page. Now I just have to figure out how to get it to that part of the page in the i-frame without messing with the master page position.