How can I scale the content of an iframe?

Question

How can I scale the content of an iframe (in my example it is an HTML page, and is not a popup) in a page of my web site?

For example, I want to display the content

Answer 1

If your html is styled with css, you can probably link different style sheets for different sizes.

Answer 2

As said, I doubt you can do it.
Maybe you can scale at least the text itself, by setting a style font-size: 80%;.
Untested, not sure it works, and won't resize boxes or images.

Answer 3

For those of you having trouble getting this to work in IE, it is helpful to use -ms-zoom as suggested below and use the zoom function on the #wrap div, not the iframe id. In my experience, with the zoom function trying to scale the iframe div of #frame, it would scale the iframe size and not the content within it (which is what you're going for).

Looks like this. Works for me on IE8, Chrome and FF.

#wrap {
  overflow: hidden;
  position: relative;
  width:800px;
  height:850px;
  -ms-zoom: 0.75;
}

Answer 4

Kip's solution should work on Opera and Safari if you change the CSS to:

<style>
    #wrap { width: 600px; height: 390px; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; }
    #frame { width: 800px; height: 520px; border: 1px solid black; }
    #frame {
        -ms-zoom: 0.75;
        -moz-transform: scale(0.75);
        -moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
        -o-transform: scale(0.75);
        -o-transform-origin: 0 0;
        -webkit-transform: scale(0.75);
        -webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
    }
</style>

You might also want to specify overflow: hidden on #frame to prevent scrollbars.

Answer 5

After struggling with this for hours trying to get it to work in IE8, 9, and 10 here's what worked for me.

This stripped-down CSS works in FF 26, Chrome 32, Opera 18, and IE9 -11 as of 1/7/2014:

.wrap
{
    width: 320px;
    height: 192px;
    padding: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.frame
{
    width: 1280px;
    height: 786px;
    border: 0;

    -ms-transform: scale(0.25);
    -moz-transform: scale(0.25);
    -o-transform: scale(0.25);
    -webkit-transform: scale(0.25);
    transform: scale(0.25);

    -ms-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -o-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
    transform-origin: 0 0;
}

For IE8, set the width/height to match the iframe, and add -ms-zoom to the .wrap container div:

.wrap
{
    width: 1280px; /* same size as frame */
    height: 768px;
    -ms-zoom: 0.25; /* for IE 8 ONLY */
}

Just use your favorite method for browser sniffing to conditionally include the appropriate CSS, see Is there a way to do browser specific conditional CSS inside a *.css file? for some ideas.

IE7 was a lost cause since -ms-zoom did not exist until IE8.

Here's the actual HTML I tested with:

<div class="wrap">
   <iframe class="frame" src="http://time.is"></iframe>
</div>
<div class="wrap">
    <iframe class="frame" src="http://apple.com"></iframe>
</div>

http://jsfiddle.net/esassaman/PnWFY/

Answer 6

html{zoom:0.4;} ?-)