Iframe
 
End Tag: Required
Support Key: 2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
What is it?
Attributes
Tag Example
Parent/Content Model
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What is it?
This is an Internet Explorer specific element that departs from the standard FRAME structure syntax. This IN-LINE framing method (also called "floating frames") is basically a method to embed other HTML documents within the framework of a regular HTML document structure with the level of placement control allowed by the IMG element. In implementation and display it is created and treated much like the OBJECT element is - backwards compatibility is achieved by having the contents of the element ignored by browsers that understand IFRAME.

Common Attributes
%Core%
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE4B1 | M | N | O
Details: No support for TITLE in IE, CLASS, ID, STYLE ok.
%Language%
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE4 | M | N | O

Specific Attributes
Align
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This specifies the alignment of text following the FRAME reference relative to the FRAME on the screen. LEFT and RIGHT alignment specify floating horizontal alignment of the frame in the browser window, and subsequent text in the document will wrap around the frame. The other values specify vertical alignment of text relative to the frame on the same line.
Values: Left | Right | Top | Middle | Bottom
FrameBorder
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute gives the author the option of whether or not to have a border around the frame.
Values:
   1 [display border - DEFAULT]
   0 [display no border]
Height
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute explicitly specifies the height of the frame in pixels. It can be used to speed up display of the document being downloaded so it can pre-render the document without the frame while the frame downloads.
Values: Positive integers
HSpace
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute specifies the horizontal spacing around the frame in pixels (left and right padding.)
Values: Positive integers.
Longdesc
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute specifies the URL of a longer description of the contents of the IFRAME specified in the SRC attribute. This would allow long passages of descriptive narrative with markup for the content of the IFRAME.
Values: Either an absolute or relative URL.
MarginHeight
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute specifies the horizontal spacing INSIDE the frame in pixels (left and right padding.)
Values: Positive integers.
MarginWidth
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute specifies the vertical spacing INSIDE the frame in pixels (top and bottom padding.)
Values: Positive integers.
Name
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
The optional Name attribute indicates the symbolic name assigned to the current frame for reference by the browser when other links target the frame as a destination. Default behavior for all FRAME documents is to be unnamed. Named frames can serve as a destination of links via the TARGET attribute within the A, AREA, BASE, and FORM tags.
Values: Alphanumeric characters.
Scrolling
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute provides guidelines for displaying a scrollbar in the frame for the user.
Values:
   Auto [DEFAULT - Let the browser decide if a scrollbar is necessary.]
   Yes [always provide a scrollbar]
   No [never provide scrollbar]
Src
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? Yes
Description:
This attribute represents the URL of the current frame document. An IFRAME tag with no SRC attribute will display a blank space where the iframe would be.
Values: Either an absolute or relative URL.
VSpace
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute specifies the vertical spacing around the frame in pixels (top and bottom padding.)
Values: Positive integers.
Width
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE3B2 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute explicitly specifies the width of the frame in pixels. It can be used to speed up display of the document being downloaded so it can pre-render the document without the frame while the frame downloads.
Values: Positive integers
Example
<html>
<head>
<title>Floating frames example</title>
</head>
<body>
   <h1>This is a floating frame example</h1>
   <hr>
   <iframe SRC="http://www.foo.com/frame1.html" NAME="float1"
   WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="100" ALIGN="right">
   You will not see this text if your browser supports IFRAME. If you CAN see this, you are in a bad way.
   </iframe>
   <hr>
</body>
</html>
Parent Model
%In-line Parent% | %Block Parent%
Content Model
%In-line Content% | %Block Content%
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