How to position a page within an iframe using CSS

Here is a useful technique to position a page within an iframe using CSS. This allows to show part of a web page within the iframe and positioned to a specific spot on the page within the iframe. Here is an example that shows the “In the News” box on the Yahoo home page:

This is the CSS and html code to accomplish the task:

<style>
#outerdiv
{
width:446px;
height:246px;
overflow:hidden;
position:relative;
}

#inneriframe
{
position:absolute;
top:-412px;
left:-318px;
width:1280px;
height:1200px;
}
</style>
<div id='outerdiv '>
<iframe src="http://www.yahoo.com/" id='inneriframe' scrolling=no >< /iframe>
</div>

7 Responses to “How to position a page within an iframe using CSS”

  • omen:

    looks great in firefox and chrome. kind of messy in interet explorer though.

  • I am using the code provided above to position a page within an iframe using CSS but when i try testing it by making a simple html file with all that code above then it doesnt seems to work.

    The code i put in the test html file is :-

    TEST

    #outerdiv
    {
    width:446px;
    height:246px;
    overflow:hidden;
    position:relative;
    }
    #inneriframe
    {
    position:absolute;
    top:-412px;
    left:-318px;
    width:1280px;
    height:1200px;
    }

    But this doent seems to work please help me if I am missing something.

    Thankyou

  • Rick:

    Thanks, this really helped me out!

  • Lol .. this trick work very well :d

    who cares about IE :D

  • worked for me, put html tags around css:

    don’t forget html tags code works fine….

    #outerdiv
    {
    width:446px;
    height:246px;
    overflow:hidden;
    position:relative;
    }

    #inneriframe
    {
    position:absolute;
    top:-412px;
    left:-318px;
    width:1280px;
    height:1200px;
    }

  • Christie:

    I wish I could say who cares about IE, with all the problems it puts out, but most visitors use IE. So if I want most visitors to see a working site I’ll have to work with IE somehow. Thank you, this is a great idea still!

  • Adam:

    I used the code above which works very well, however, I am only able to control the coordinates of the page that I am inserting into the iFrame…I want to change the coordinates of where the iFrame appears on my page, because as of now it stays in the top left no matter what I change.

    Please help.

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