A few times I needed to have a page where I have an iframe (I know, I know – it is bad design, but sometimes you need to sacrifice!) with header to the top. I tried many different CSS hacks, but could not get it right. Then I came around pageY(), tiny function created by John Resig (jQuery author), which helps to resolve this particular problem brilliantly:
function ResizeIFrame() { var buffer = 40; //scroll bar buffer var height = document.documentElement.clientHeight - pageY(document.getElementById('ifrm')) + buffer; height = (height < 0) ? 0 : height; $('iframe#ifrm').css('height', height + 'px'); } function pageY(elem) { return elem.offsetParent ? (elem.offsetTop + pageY(elem.offsetParent)) : elem.offsetTop; }
Where ‘ifrm’ is ID of iframe.
The only thing we need now is handing load and resize events:
window.onload = window.onresize = ResizeIFrame;
This could not be simpler!
Hi,
I could not understand the code. The Iframe height would be set based on the content or parent element height.
I could not understand the pageY function particularly
return elem.offsetParent ? (elem.offsetTop + pageY(elem.offsetParent)) :
elem.offsetTop;
this line and also height = (height < 0) ? 0 : height;.
What it means, Im the beginner. Can you pls describe me to understand. Thanks.