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IFrame 100% height nightmare 2

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1DMF

1DMF

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Hi,

I seem unable to find the right way to have an iframe that is 100% tall / wide and works like a body normally would.

I know that an iframe based on the body that has no fixed height means it has nothing to base the 100% height on.

I've tried
Code: 
body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  height:1000px;
  overflow:scroll;
}

iframe {
    width:100%;
    height:100%;  
    overflow:hidden;    
    display:block; 
    }

but that creates two scroll bars.

I've tried giving the body a stupid height with overflow scroll on the body and the iframe overflow hidden and vice versa, nothing works like I want and all because annoyingly FF won't let you remove the address bar from popup windows.

Some of our new shinny HTML5 members area is being launched over a new MVC PSGI application, while some of the old legacy CGI stuff is to be skinned not ported over, so I don't want the old URL's showing in the address bar, they cannot simply visit them as a standard URL.

So I created a page in the new system that needs to be a full size 100% height/width iframe so it looks like it is the actual page of the app as if it was a full normal URL and has a page down scroll bar that works properly and only one!.

Howe do you achieve this?

Thanks,
1DMF.

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This works for me on both Chrome and FF.
HTML: 
<! DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
	<title>iFrame Test</title>
	<style type="text/css">
		html,body
		{
			height:100%;
			width:100%;
			overflow:hidden;	
			padding:0;
			margin:0;	
		}
	</style>
</head>
	<body>
		<iframe src="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.wikipedia.org"[/URL] width="100%" height="100%"></iframe>
	</body>
</html>

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If the iframe is 100%, why not just put the original code there instead?
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It has to have something to be 100% of.

So both the HTML & BODY elements have to be the full height of the viewport which has an explicit height to be 100% of when the document is rendered.

Chris.

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audiopro said:
I was suggesting removing the iframe altogether as the requirement is to have it behave like a normal body element.
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Not quite:

1DMF said:
Some of our new shinny HTML5 members area is being launched over a new MVC PSGI application, while some of the old legacy CGI stuff is to be skinned not ported over, so I don't want the old URL's showing in the address bar, they cannot simply visit them as a standard URL.
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1DMF doesn't want the url of the "content" of the iframe to be visible in the address bar, so he's putting it inside an iframe in a page with a different URL.



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Nothing to do with the MVC PSGI application. More just the URL that's gong to be showing. It would work the same way with a standard HTML page who's URL you don't want to directly show for whatever reason.

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Thanks Phil,

was it really that simple, all I had to do was include <html>
Code: 
html,body
{
	height:100%;
	width:100%;
	overflow:hidden;	
	padding:0;
	margin:0;	
}
		
iframe {
    width:100%;
    height:100%;  
    overflow:scroll;    
    display:block; 
}

Though still a little annoying in IE, as it shows the URL in the title bar in front of the actual page title. Is it possible to get rid of this?

Sorry, I wouldn't recognise an MVC PSGI application if it came up and bit me so I will leave you to it.
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No worries Keith, it's simply the new way of running Perl CGI applications
PSGI - Perl Web Server Gateway Interface
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and to achieve this I use the Perl Catalyst MVC framework. There are many out there to choose from, Dancer, Catalyst, Mojolicious.

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Though still a little annoying in IE, as it shows the URL in the title bar in front of the actual page title. Is it possible to get rid of this?
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well I refreshed the page a couple of times and now it just shows the page title as it should?

Sometimes I think I'm going mad!

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Glad its working now.

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