I want to change the iframe height based on how the iframe content changes, but I'm having problems if the iframe's content has a height value lower than 150px.
I've tested this code in Firefox and Chrome and it has the same result.
Here you can test it https://jsfiddle.net/bqvc0pp5/17/
From what I've seen if no height is specified the iframe will automatically have 150px(without border).
In this example I increased the value to 300px then lowered to 200px than to 50px . Everything works great until the 50px is converted to 150px;
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.setAttribute("scrolling","no");
iframe.onload = () => {
builtElement();
};
//append iframe to main document
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
var k=0;
function builtElement(){
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.style.height="50px";
div.style.backgroundColor="salmon";
iframe.contentWindow.document.body.style.margin="0px";
iframe.contentWindow.document.body.appendChild(div);
div.addEventListener("click", () =>{
if(k==0){
div.style.height="300px";
}
if(k==1){
div.style.height="200px";
}
if(k==2){
div.style.height="50px";
}
if(k>=2) k=0;
else k++;
updateIframeHeight();
});
}
function updateIframeHeight(){
//I need to reset height or else scrollHeight will be the last max value
iframe.style.height="";
var height = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight;
//this is a dirty hack where I can check if offsetHeight is lower than 150px
var offsetHeight = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.offsetHeight;
//if(offsetHeight<150) height=offsetHeight;
console.log("scrollHeight: "+height);
console.log("scrollHeight: "+offsetHeight);
iframe.style.height=height+"px";
}
If I do a little hack and check if the offsetHeight is lower than 150px it works.
var offsetHeight = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.offsetHeight;
if(offsetHeight<150) height=offsetHeight;
Is this the best way to do this?
UPDATE: In a real example, the iframe body contains more than one elements, but only certain elements change height, therefor changing the body scrollHeight
I found the solution. All you have to do is set the size to 0px;
iframe.style.height="0px";
What I did previously iframe.style.height=""; set the height to 150px by default. It appears that if no size is specified the iframe size will be 150px;
this is not the final solution but this may help you to fix your issue without hacks:
[Fiddle][1]https://jsfiddle.net/Marouen/qskpdn8b/
I'm a JavaScript novice. Have patience with me.
I searched this site for relevant questions and found two: How to get width of a dynamically created element with $comiple in Angularj and jQuery + CSS. How do I compute height and width of innerHTML?. Their relevance and their answers are discussed below. If I missed a relevant question and this is a duplicate question, please direct me to it.
I dynamically create a <div class="popup"> (call it "popup"), populate it with innerHTML from a display: none; <div> in the markup, and insert it on the page. The relevant CSS is:
.popup {
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 200px;
height: 250px;
}
Using event.clientX, I position popup relative to the cursor position at the time the mouseover event fired, as follows:
var widthOffset = 75, heightOffset = 0;
var windowWidth, popupWidth;
// other code ...
windowWidth = $(window).width();
popupWidth = 200; // popup.style.width returns nothing (not null,
// not undefined, just nothing).
// when event.clientX is in the left half of the window, display popup
// offset to the right of clientX;
// when clientX is in the right half, display popup offset to the left.
if( event.clientX > windowWidth/2 ){ widthOffset = -(widthOffset + popupWidth);}
popup.style.top = event.clientY - heightOffset + "px";
popup.style.left = event.clientX + widthOffset + "px";
There is a working reduced case at the Pen Popup Project Reduced Case on CodePen.
The problem is that I want to programmatically obtain popupWidth not set it as a fixed quantity. But, as the comment states,
popupWidth = popup.style.width;
is nothing. (Maybe it's a null string: popupWidth === "". I'm uncertain.)
The answer to the first question referenced above said to insert popup into the DOM before trying to obtain its width. I have done this. (See the Pen.) Still, it doesn't work.
A comment to the second answer to the second question said:
the root issues is that height cannot be set on an element with display:none.
I had display: none but when I changed it to display: block, and set popupWidth = popup.style.width;, popup "stuttered" fiercely on mouseover.
So the question remains: How do I programmatically get popupWidth just as I did with windowWidth?
With help from #Redu and #torazaburo, the answer became clear.
popupWidth = popup.offsetWidth; is the correct statement but both these conditions must be true:
popup must have been inserted into the DOM, and
display: block; must have been set.
If popup is still in memory or display: block; has not been set, then popup.offsetWidth === 0. If both of the conditions are true, then popup.offsetWidth is equal to the width set in the CSS.
Thanks to both commenters for their help.
You can do like
var popupDiv = document.getElementsByClassName("popup")[0],
width = window.getComputedStyle(popupDiv).width;
If you deal with a window or document type of element then getElementsByClassName(element,null), element.offsetWidth or element.clientWidth doesn't work. You have to access the width value like
var w = window.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
I am trying to learn a few things without jQuery. Here is one of the challenges I'm facing.
I have a fixed contenteditable div that when adding text to the div, if the scrollHeight exceeds the clientHeight I shrink the font until content fits the div.
Occasionally I "rebuild" the text which replaces the innerHTML programmatically. Or the user can delete text which should reduce the scrollHeight, but in both cases, the scrollHeight remains the maximum value. I need some way to increase the font size to "fit" the div again. (that ideally isn't super expensive)
Example:
My clientHeight = 142, and the scrollHeight = 158. A loop reduces the font size, until scrollHeight is 142.
Then, the user deletes a line of text, but the scrollHeight is still 142, no change.
code to reduce/increase height:
var textBox = document.getElementById('text');
var current, min = 6, max = 14;
current = textBox.style.fontSize.substr(0, textBox.style.fontSize.length - 2);
current = parseInt(current);
if (textBox.clientHeight < textBox.scrollHeight) {
while (textBox.clientHeight < textBox.scrollHeight) {
current--;
if (current < min) break;
textBox.style.fontSize = '' + current + 'pt';
}
} else if (textBox.clientHeight > textBox.scrollHeight) {
while (textBox.clientHeight > textBox.scrollHeight) {
current++;
if (current > max) break;
textBox.style.fontSize = '' + current + 'pt';
}
}
html (incase it matters):
<div id="text" contenteditable="true"></div>
css (incase it matters):
#text {
position: relative;
border: 1px solid blue;
top: 180px;
left: 31px;
width: 300px;
height: 132px;
padding: 5px;
font-family: 'mplantin';
font-size: 14pt;
font-weight: 200;
}
I was on the same boat, but with an iframe; I'm not sure if my solution suits your chat window because its for page transitioning, but after some testing this is my hack. "content" is the id of an iframe and this is executed inside a javascript function that is called when the page change is needed:
var c=document.getElementById("content");
c.width=0;
c.height=0;
c.src="page.html";
the `src' assignment method expands the values set to 0 right after, achieving the desired result; there may be a way for you to constantly re-size a text area like that; however, I had visual issues with you; I ended up using timers so that the change would take place while the transition between pages was transparent.
This seemed to fix my issue:
element.style.height = "auto";
both answers from #nixahn and #jeff are working for me (chrome,ff)
iframe.style.height ="0"; // or "auto"
iframe.contentWindow.document.open();
iframe.contentWindow.document.write('<style>'+css+'</style>');
iframe.contentWindow.document.write(html);
iframe.contentWindow.document.close();
I have used a div with a fixed height, and the problem with auto is that it resizes the element, I fixed that with the following code after my inner HTML was set:
element.style.height = "auto";
element.style.height = "400px";
now scrollHeight is resetted correctly and gives the real height of the inner HTML
I had this same issue -- A content editable div whose scrollHeight wouldn't shrink when lines were removed.
The accepted answer didn't fix the problem for me, however, removing the div's parent's display: flex; did.
I have concocted a little script here out of bits and pieces I have found and scraped together, but I need a little help to add an extra function to it,
First of all - this is what it is doing for me at the moment:
It resizes and crops/letterboxes an image to completely fill a div
which is a % height and a % width – it keeps doing this whenever and
whatever window resize
It keeps working seamlessly as the window is resized
The image is filling 100% the area the div covers - left to right
and top to bottom.
The image is not being squashed or stretched - just being cropped
or is overflowing.
The image is kept as small as possible, so whatever the resize -
you can still see either the very sides OR the very top and bottom of
the image.
It seems to be OK across IE9, Fire Fox, Oprea, Chrome, and Safari
over XP and 7
All of these things are very important to me, please don't tell me that all i need is:
<img style="width : 100%;">
This is so much more than that. It's not too easy to explain but check the demo and drag the corner of the window around and that'll be worth 1000 words...!
Now, what I want to add:
All it is, I’d like the letter box to centre on the image.
When the div is a very tall portrait or a very flat landscape I’m just getting the top or just the left hand side of the image.
I’d like the centre of the original image to stay in the centre of the resized div.
I’ve tried a few things but have drawn a blank. I’m sure the script could feed a minus top: or left: into the style but it seems if I get too many div’s in div’s IE doesn’t like it, or what am I doing wrong?
Thing is I don’t really know how to wright this stuff, I only steal bit and bobs and splat them together…
And finally the demo
And the script:
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style>
#imgarea {
position:absolute;
right:0px;
height:75%;
width:70%;
top:25%;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function resizeImage()
{
var window_height = document.body.clientHeight
var window_width = document.body.clientWidth
var image_width = document.images[0].width
var image_height = document.images[0].height
var area_width = window_width * 0.7
var area_height = window_height * 0.75
var height_ratio = image_height / area_height
var width_ratio = image_width / area_width
if (height_ratio > width_ratio)
{
document.images[0].style.width = "100%"
document.images[0].style.height = "auto"
}
else
{
document.images[0].style.width = "auto"
document.images[0].style.height = "100%"
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onresize="resizeImage()">
<div id="imgarea">
<img onload="resizeImage()" src="f/a.jpg">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks Very Much For This.
I'm not quiet sure if that's what you're looking for, but let's try this:
*upd: the wysiwyg is not working on comments at this moment, so sorry for messy code snippets.
1.Position the div#imgarea relatively. You can then float it to the right, to replicate your right:0px declaration. Don't forget to hide the overflow, to ensure that 'letter-boxed' parts of the image stay hidden.
#imgarea {
position: relative;
width: 70%;
height: 75%;
float: right;
overflow: hidden;
top: 25%;
};
Some user agents will add paddings and margins to the body element, thus preventing the image container to slide all the way to the right. Reset those, to get rid of the gaps between the container and the edge of the browser window.
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
As for the image itself, position it absolutely.
img {
position: absolute;
}
And finally javascript. To center the image, you need to calculate what this width/height=auto sums up to, and then reset left/top attributes respectively. Your if function needs to be adjusted just a bit; leave your variables as is:
if (height_ratio > width_ratio) {
var newWidth, newHeight, newTop;
newWidth = area_width;
newHeight = image_height/width_ratio;
newTop = -(newHeight-area_height)/2;
document.images[0].style.width = newWidth;
document.images[0].style.height = newHeight;
document.images[0].style.top = newTop;
document.images[0].style.left = 0;
}else{
var newWidth, newHeight, newLeft;
newHeight = area_height;
newWidth = image_width/height_ratio;
newLeft = -(width-area_width)/2;
document.images[0].style.width = newWidth;
document.images[0].style.height = newHeight;
document.images[0].style.top = 0;
document.images[0].style.left = newLeft;
}
I hope that if this doesn't solve the issue completely, it at least sends you in the right direction. Good luck.
I'm not sure if this will work exactly, but may get your started. I had a client request a radial gradient be fixed to the left and right of a website's main ontent section. The page was set up with dynamic widths and I had a heck of a time getting one solid image to work, so I came up with a quick css solution.
#bgHold #gradLeft{
width:248px;
height:975px;
position:fixed;
right:50%;
margin-right:399px;
background:url("../images/gradLeft.png") top center no-repeat;
}
margin-right is half of the content block's width. So basically, the gradient is fixed on the page at 50% from the right, then shoved left 50% of the content box making it line up with the edge of the content. The same idea applies to the other side.
Now, with your situation, perhaps you can set right:50%; and margin-right:imgWidth/2?
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 a wrapper div tag inside the iframe which basically is all the content. I wrote some jQuery to make the resize happen :
$("#TB_window", window.parent.document).height($("body").height() + 50);
where
TB_window is the div in which the Iframe is contained.
body - the body tag of the aspx in the iframe.
This script is attached to the iframe content. I am getting the TB_window element from the parent page. While this works fine on Chrome, but the TB_window collapses in Firefox. I am really confused/lost on why that happens.
You can retrieve the height of the IFRAME's content by using:
contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight
After the IFRAME is loaded, you can then change the height by doing the following:
<script type="text/javascript">
function iframeLoaded() {
var iFrameID = document.getElementById('idIframe');
if(iFrameID) {
// here you can make the height, I delete it first, then I make it again
iFrameID.height = "";
iFrameID.height = iFrameID.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + "px";
}
}
</script>
Then, on the IFRAME tag, you hook up the handler like this:
<iframe id="idIframe" onload="iframeLoaded()" ...
I had a situation a while ago where I additionally needed to call iframeLoaded from the IFRAME itself after a form-submission occurred within. You can accomplish that by doing the following within the IFRAME's content scripts:
parent.iframeLoaded();
A slightly improved answer to Aristos...
<script type="text/javascript">
function resizeIframe(iframe) {
iframe.height = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + "px";
}
</script>
Then declare in your iframe as follows:
<iframe onload="resizeIframe(this)" ...
There are two minor improvements:
You don't need to get the element via document.getElementById - as you already have it in the onload callback.
There's no need to set the iframe.height = "" if you're going to reassign it in the very next statement. Doing so actually incurs an overhead as you're dealing with a DOM element.
Edit:
If the content in the frame is always changing then call:
parent.resizeIframe(this.frameElement);
from within the iframe after the update. Works for same origin.
Or to auto detect:
// on resize
this.container = this.frameElement.contentWindow.document.body;
this.watch = () => {
cancelAnimationFrame(this.watcher);
if (this.lastScrollHeight !== container.scrollHeight) {
parent.resizeIframeToContentSize(this.frameElement);
}
this.lastScrollHeight = container.scrollHeight;
this.watcher = requestAnimationFrame(this.watch);
};
this.watcher = window.requestAnimationFrame(this.watch);
I found that the accepted answer didn't suffice, since X-FRAME-OPTIONS: Allow-From isn't supported in safari or chrome. Went with a different approach instead, found in a presentation given by Ben Vinegar from Disqus. The idea is to add an event listener to the parent window, and then inside the iframe, use window.postMessage to send an event to the parent telling it to do something (resize the iframe).
So in the parent document, add an event listener:
window.addEventListener('message', function(e) {
var $iframe = jQuery("#myIframe");
var eventName = e.data[0];
var data = e.data[1];
switch(eventName) {
case 'setHeight':
$iframe.height(data);
break;
}
}, false);
And inside the iframe, write a function to post the message:
function resize() {
var height = document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].scrollHeight;
window.parent.postMessage(["setHeight", height], "*");
}
Finally, inside the iframe, add an onLoad to the body tag to fire the resize function:
<body onLoad="resize();">
Add this to the iframe, this worked for me:
onload="this.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight;"
And if you use jQuery try this code:
onload="$(this).height($(this.contentWindow.document.body).find(\'div\').first().height());"
you could also add a repeating requestAnimationFrame to your resizeIframe (e.g. from #BlueFish's answer) which would always be called before the browser paints the layout and you could update the height of the iframe when its content have changed their heights. e.g. input forms, lazy loaded content etc.
<script type="text/javascript">
function resizeIframe(iframe) {
iframe.height = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + "px";
window.requestAnimationFrame(() => resizeIframe(iframe));
}
</script>
<iframe onload="resizeIframe(this)" ...
your callback should be fast enough to have no big impact on your overall performance
There are four different properties you can look at to get the height of the content in an iFrame.
document.documentElement.scrollHeight
document.documentElement.offsetHeight
document.body.scrollHeight
document.body.offsetHeight
Sadly they can all give different answers and these are inconsistant between browsers. If you set the body margin to 0 then the document.body.offsetHeight gives the best answer. To get the correct value try this function; which is taken from the iframe-resizer library that also looks after keeping the iFrame the correct size when the content changes,or the browser is resized.
function getIFrameHeight(){
function getComputedBodyStyle(prop) {
function getPixelValue(value) {
var PIXEL = /^\d+(px)?$/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');
}
Other answers were not working for me so i did some changes. Hope this will help
$('#iframe').on("load", function() {
var iframe = $(window.top.document).find("#iframe");
iframe.height(iframe[0].ownerDocument.body.scrollHeight+'px' );
});
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.
I am using jQuery and the code below working for me,
var iframe = $(window.top.document).find("#iframe_id_here");
iframe.height(iframe.contents().height()+'px' );
You can refer related question here - How to make width and height of iframe same as its parent div?
To set dynamic height -
We need to communicate with cross domain iFrames and parent
Then we can send scroll height/content height of iframe to parent window
And codes - https://gist.github.com/mohandere/a2e67971858ee2c3999d62e3843889a8
Rather than using javscript/jquery the easiest way I found is:
<iframe style="min-height:98vh" src="http://yourdomain.com" width="100%"></iframe>
Here 1vh = 1% of Browser window height. So the theoretical value of height to be set is 100vh but practically 98vh did the magic.
All other answers are correct but what if the iframe has some dynamic content like a map that loads later and dynamically changes your iframe scroll height. This is how I achieved it.
var iFrameID = document.getElementById('idIframe');
intval = setInterval(function(){
if(iFrameID.scrollHeight == iFrameID.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight){
clearInterval(intval);
}else{
iFrameID.height = iFrameID.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + "px";
}
},500)
I simply wrap the code inside setInterval which matches the iframe scroll height with iframe content scroll height then clear the interval.
in my project there is one requirement that we have make dynamic screen like Alignment of Dashboard while loading, it should display on an entire page and should get adjust dynamically, if user is maximizing or resizing the browser’s window.
For this I have created url and used iframe to open one of the dynamic report which is written in cognos BI.In jsp we have to embed BI report. I have used iframe to embed this report in jsp. following code is working in my case.
<iframe src= ${cognosUrl} onload="this.style.height=(this.contentDocument.body.scrollHeight+30) +'px';" scrolling="no" style="width: 100%; min-height: 900px; border: none; overflow: hidden; height: 30px;"></iframe>
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' );
}
});
To add to the chunk of window that seems to cut off at the bottom, especially when you don't have scrolling I used:
function resizeIframe(iframe) {
var addHeight = 20; //or whatever size is being cut off
iframe.height = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + addHeight + "px";
}
This one is useful when you require a solution with no jquery. In that case you should try adding a container and set a padding to it in percentages
HTML example code:
<div class="iframecontainer">
<iframe scrolling="no" src="..." class="iframeclass"width="999px" height="618px"></iframe>
</div>
CSS example code:
.iframeclass{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
}
.iframecontainer{
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
padding-top: 61%;
}
The simple solution is to measure the width and height of the content area, and then use those measurements to calculate the bottom padding percentage.
In this case, the measurements are 1680 x 720 px, so the padding on the bottom is 720 / 1680 = 0.43 * 100, which comes out to 43%.
.canvas-container {
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 43%; // (720 ÷ 1680 = 0.4286 = 43%)
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
.canvas-container iframe {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
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.
jQuery('.home_vidio_img1 img').click(function(){
video = '<iframe src="'+ jQuery(this).attr('data-video') +'"></iframe>';
jQuery(this).replaceWith(video);
});
jQuery('.home_vidio_img2 img').click(function(){
video = <iframe src="'+ jQuery(this).attr('data-video') +'"></iframe>;
jQuery('.home_vidio_img1 img').replaceWith(video);
jQuery('.home_vidio_img1 iframe').replaceWith(video);
});
jQuery('.home_vidio_img3 img').click(function(){
video = '<iframe src="'+ jQuery(this).attr('data-video') +'"></iframe>';
jQuery('.home_vidio_img1 img').replaceWith(video);
jQuery('.home_vidio_img1 iframe').replaceWith(video);
});
jQuery('.home_vidio_img4 img').click(function(){
video = '<iframe src="'+ jQuery(this).attr('data-video') +'"></iframe>';
jQuery('.home_vidio_img1 img').replaceWith(video);
jQuery('.home_vidio_img1 iframe').replaceWith(video);
});
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>';
Script
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var height = $(window).height();
$('.myIframe').css('height', height - 200);
});
</script>
iframe
<iframe class="myIframe" width="100%"></iframe>
It's working in my case.
$(document).height() // - $('body').offset().top
and / or
$(window).height()
See Stack Overflow question How to get the height of a body element.
Try this to find the height of the body in jQuery:
if $("body").height()
It doesn't have a value if Firebug. Perhaps that's the problem.
just make iframe container position:absolute and iframe will automatically change its height according to its content
<style>
.iframe-container {
display: block;
position: absolute;
/*change position as you need*/
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
}
iframe {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: #fff;
}
</style>
<div class="iframe-container">
<iframe src="http://iframesourcepage"></iframe>
</div>