Comments on: Dynamic Resizing of Cross-Domain Iframes

By: jajasilver

jajasilver — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:11:50 +0000

Seems that it can work in Internet Explorer too, if you specify a valid DOCTYPE.

In your example, the pages are rendered in Quirks mode, which seems to break the dynamic resizing.

By: Kain Vinosec

Kain Vinosec — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:03:02 +0000

I’ve looked and looked and looked for an answer for this problem and this is the only solution I’ve found that works for dynamic cross-domain iframe height resizing. It is genius. Thank you so much for posting this.

By: newme

newme — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:48:23 +0000

me either, doesn’t work in IE7

By: Naresh Gupta

Naresh Gupta — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:42:55 +0000

I tried the sample, it works in Firefox but not resizing in IE8. Any ideas?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:55:46 +0000

I’ve updated the example to resize based on height of the content.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:30:07 +0000

I have the same question as Ethan.

Everything works great, I just cant figure out how to make it dynamic to the content. right now i can get it to resize to whatever i replace 300×300. but how can i make it 300 x “height of my tumblr contents”

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:46:21 +0000

I need to set the height based on contents, so not a static height. this works… height=’ + document.height; but it seems to be calculating the height of the iframe plus something else, so I guess I need to specify that I want the height of only the iframe. Any ideas?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:02:03 +0000

Martin — The iframed page (example.html) creates another iframe pointing to pipe.html. That’s where setDimensions() is called.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:52:31 +0000

Hi, I cheked your code but i didn’t see where you call the function setDimensions ??????

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:48:24 +0000

Sorry Daniel — If I understand you correctly, there’s no way to do exactly that.

To be clear, the child iframe can pass information to the parent, and that’s all. The parent can’t initiate it or request information or anything.

In other words, you need to have control of (or have the ear of the person who has control of) the iframe’s contents. They can then pass data to the parent using a child in the same domain, as described above.