Someone please explain to me the iframe tag in HTML. Why is it used? How is it used?
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Someone please explain to me the iframe tag in HTML. Why is it used? How is it used?
An inline frame is one that embeds another frame or another html page in your current page; the frame may be from another website.
The best examples of iframe usage are
A simple iframe helps you to embed anything from another website/page to your website/webpage.
have a look at this docs this explaines iframe the best
<iframe>: The Inline Frame element – HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN (mozilla.org)
for now just think of it as an HTML element that allows us to link and preview videos, maps and other stuffs of other sites with permission.
Mostly we use it to embed google maps or youtube videos.
In simple words, iframe is inline frame.
It is used to embed another document within the existing html page.
Syntax:
<iframe src=”url” title=”description”></iframe>
iframe means a inline frame…which basically acts as split screen function…
it helps you to embed another website or webpage to your own website….
simple example…
more info…
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
So by this time you must know how <img..> tag works using which you can embed images hosted in another domain into your html document. Now Iframe takes it another step forward and allows you to embed another document into your html document. Usually Iframe is used when you want embedding done cross domain.
Risks you should consider while embedding contents from other domains:
1> Let us see you tube example you embedded an youtube video in your site and suddenly the owner of that youtube video decides to remove it from youtube you will end up with broken portion in your web.
2>There is huge security risk while embedding from another domain in cases where it is not under your control.
One use case could be let us say you have an responsive web chat page already developed you can easily embed the web chat page in your mobile app in an menu item.
Iframe is kind of mostly avoidable shortcut to things and I would suggest to avoid it as much as possible and try to integrate in better ways.
The <iframe> creates an inline frame, which embeds an independent HTML document into the current document.
For example:
<iframe> is inline frame used to embed or link with another web page usually for displaying a video