I am loading an aspx web page in an iframe. The content in the Iframe can be of more height than the iframe\'s height. The iframe should not have scroll bars.
I have
I found the answer from Troy didn't work. This is the same code reworked for ajax:
$.ajax({
url: 'data.php',
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data)
{
// Put the data onto the page
// Resize the iframe
var iframe = $(window.top.document).find("#iframe");
iframe.height( iframe[0].contentDocument.body.scrollHeight+'px' );
}
});
You can refer related question here - How to make width and height of iframe same as its parent div?
To set dynamic height -
And codes - https://gist.github.com/mohandere/a2e67971858ee2c3999d62e3843889a8
Sample using PHP htmlspecialchars() + check if height exists and is > 0:
$my_html_markup = ''; // Insert here HTML markup with CSS, JS... '<html><head></head><body>...</body></html>'
$iframe = '<iframe onload="if(this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight) {this.height = this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight;}" width="100%" src="javascript: \''. htmlspecialchars($my_html_markup) . '\'"></iframe>';
Just in case this helps anyone. I was pulling my hair out trying to get this to work, then I noticed that the iframe had a class entry with height:100%. When I removed this, everything worked as expected. So, please check for any css conflicts.
There are four different properties you can look at to get the height of the content in an iFrame.
document.documentElement.scrollHeight
document.documentElement.offsetHeight
document.body.scrollHeight
document.body.offsetHeight
Sadly they can all give different answers and these are inconsistant between browsers. If you set the body margin to 0 then the document.body.offsetHeight
gives the best answer. To get the correct value try this function; which is taken from the iframe-resizer library that also looks after keeping the iFrame the correct size when the content changes,or the browser is resized.
function getIFrameHeight(){
function getComputedBodyStyle(prop) {
function getPixelValue(value) {
var PIXEL = /^\d+(px)?$/i;
if (PIXEL.test(value)) {
return parseInt(value,base);
}
var
style = el.style.left,
runtimeStyle = el.runtimeStyle.left;
el.runtimeStyle.left = el.currentStyle.left;
el.style.left = value || 0;
value = el.style.pixelLeft;
el.style.left = style;
el.runtimeStyle.left = runtimeStyle;
return value;
}
var
el = document.body,
retVal = 0;
if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) {
retVal = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null)[prop];
} else {//IE8 & below
retVal = getPixelValue(el.currentStyle[prop]);
}
return parseInt(retVal,10);
}
return document.body.offsetHeight +
getComputedBodyStyle('marginTop') +
getComputedBodyStyle('marginBottom');
}
A slightly improved answer to BlueFish...
function resizeIframe(iframe) {
var padding = 50;
if (iframe.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight < (window.innerHeight - padding))
iframe.height = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + "px";
else
iframe.height = (window.innerHeight - padding) + "px";
}
This takes in consideration the height of the windows screen(browser, phone) which is good for responsive design and iframes that have huge height. Padding represents the padding you want above and below the iframe in the case it goes trough whole screen.