How to Get External Page's HTML in another Page - html

I have a simple HTML page to display other pages. When a request comes to the page the page internally calls to another page and views called page content.
I have tried it to be done with IFrame but IFram has width and height problem. We must specify width or height of IFrame element. Because called page width and height is unknown we can't specify width and height of IFrame.
I want to get HTML of called page and put this in div or another element to display in caller page.
Any help will be appreciated.

Use the JQuery load() method. Its still an IFrame in the background, but has more options.

jQuery solution
function fetch_archive(event) {
$.ajax({
url:thePage.html,
cache:false,
success:function(data){
$("#monthly-post-container").html(data);
},
error:ajaxFailure
});
}
function ajaxFailure(){
alert("oops something went wrong");
}

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css overflow-y on a load html page

I'm inserting a jsp page on an existing jsp page (left menu) to simplify my deployment and mutualize my menu in any page of my site.
Here is the insertion I'm performing:
<body>
....
<div style="overflow-y:scroll;" id="leftMenu"></div>
....
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#leftMenu").load("leftMenu.jsp");
.....
</script>
insertion is working well but I would need to get the y scroll available systematically but it is not working properly (on Chrome and Firefox and IE). Sometimes when I refresh the page I can see the vertical scrolling but this is not systematic.
I also tried to insert as well tag
height: 100%
but same result, how can I get the vertical scrolling on this jsp page I'm inserting ?
If I am right then:
If you always want a scrollbar whether it’s needed or not,
use overflow:scroll.
Change the styles overflow style when you loading new JSP page
Keep the style "overflow: hidden". If you don't want to scrollbar initially
eg. when loading the new jsp
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#leftMenu").load("leftMenu.jsp");
$("#leftMenu").css("overflow-y", "scroll");

how to fix chrome flicker on iframe page reload

Chrome flickers when reloading content in iframes. Can this be avoided in any way, thinking of:
Wrapping a-links with js that does some magic.
Meta-tags in content-html. (I have source control over the html in the iframes)
Please note that the content-type in the iframe may vary (pdfs, html, images) so if ajax is the only way out here, does it reflect the http-content-type back to the iframe?
Please visit the demo at http://jsfiddle.net/2tEVr/
Excerpt of fiddle:
<iframe name="if" width="800" height="600"></iframe>
UPDATE
The solution that worked best for me was to replace regular href's with ajax-requests, repopulating the body-area, (solution 4 below) Flickering is gone but comes at a price of akward debugging since sync between content and "view-source" is lost on ajax-request.
Also, since the content-type in my case may change, the method for performing the ajax-request had to have some brains and possibly fall back to regular location request.
regards,
#user247245: From your question, its not entirely clear how you (want to) use the iframe. Does it reload periodically, or once when the whole webpage loads?
Solution 1: Different background color
In case you just want to avoid the ugly white, and avoid over-complication. Set a different background color in your HTML header of the framecontents.html file, like so:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html style="background-color: #F48;">
This way, while the CSS file loads,parses, and gets applied, the background is not #fff.
Solution 2: Transparent iframe
While there is no content, the iframe should simply not be visible. Solution:
<iframe src="/framecontents.html" allowTransparency="true" background="transparent"></iframe>
Ofcourse dont use this in combination with solution 1, you'll shoot yourself in the foot.
Solution 3: Preload iframe page
In case you are loading the iframe later (such as user clicking a link), consider preloading its contents. Hide this in near the top of your (parent) page:
<iframe src="/framecontents.html" style="position: absolute; width: 0px; height: 0px"></iframe>
But i'd advise using solution 2 instead.
Solution 4: If doing a mobile web interface:
See how jQuery Mobile did it. We built a web interface that had to feel like a native app, so without reload flashes. jQM fixed that. Basically does a background ajax call to retrieve the full HTML contents, then extracts the body (the "page" div to be more precise) and then replaces the contents (with a transition if you like). All the while a reload spinner is shown.
All in all this feels like more like a mobile application: no reload flashes. Other solutions would be:
Solution 5: Use JS to inject CSS:
See answer by jmva, or http://css-tricks.com/prevent-white-flash-iframe/ .
Solution 6: use JS to inject CSS (simple version)
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.document.getElementById("theframe").style.visibility = "hidden";
</script>
<iframe id="theframe" src="/framecontents.html" onload="this.style.visibility='visible';"></iframe>
You could ofcourse leave out the <script> part and add style="visibility:hidden;" to the iframe, but the above would make sure that the frame is visible for visitors with JS disabled. Actually, i'd advise to do that because 99% of visitors has it enabled anyway, and its simpler and more effective.
A common trick is to display the iframe just when it's full loaded but it's better to not rely on that.
<iframe src="..." style="visibility:hidden;"
onload="this.style.visibility='visible';"></iframe>
The same trick a bit optimized using JS.
// Prevent variables from being global
(function () {
/*
1. Inject CSS which makes iframe invisible
*/
var div = document.createElement('div'),
ref = document.getElementsByTagName('base')[0] ||
document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
div.innerHTML = '­<style> iframe { visibility: hidden; } </style>';
ref.parentNode.insertBefore(div, ref);
/*
2. When window loads, remove that CSS,
making iframe visible again
*/
window.onload = function() {
div.parentNode.removeChild(div);
}
})();
Extracted from css-trick
If you have to switch between different sites and that trick of onload isn't working the only viable solution would be destroy and create the iframe programatically.
Try adding transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0); on a parent element.
I had an issue where the iframe was taller than its parent (parent has overflow: hidden). The iframe's overflown portion was flickering on each video loop on Chrome (YouTube iframe API).
Forcing hardware acceleration this way was the only thing that worked for me.
A simpler solution that worked in my case was just adding this CSS to the iframe
will-change: height;
min-height: 400px;

chrome/opera anchor shift away after adding dom elements

Say I have a URL: http://rythmengine.org/doc/expression.md#transformer
Immediately after the page is loaded, the anchor is shown correctly, however I have a script to automatically add some iframes across the page, chrome/opera will later on shift away from the anchor #comment, firefox and IE (10) are all good.
Any idea how to fix it in Chrome/opera?
I do not know if I would implement this or not since the iframes do take a noticeable amount of time to load and the user might already be scrolling around the page and get jolted back to the hash element but here is a solution I came up with using jQuery.
Since the iframes are being replaced in the document after it initially loads you can use the .load() function which normally never fires if you just have it on the document.
Demo on this page and edit the fiddle here.
Just add this jQuery code into your script tag where you replace all of the pre code:
Code:
$('iframe').load(function() {
moveToHash();
});
// Scroll to the url hash element
function moveToHash()
{
var hashElem = $(window.location.hash);
// If the hash elment exists
if(hashElem.length)
{
window.scrollTo(hashElem.position().left, hashElem.position().top);
}
}
Edit: had a few mistakes and unnecessary in the code that are now fixed.
When every iframe ends loading tell the browser to go to that hash
$('iframe').load(function() {
document.location.href = document.location.hash;
});

object element not growing auto

i have 2 problem with object element in html,
i use this object
<object id='obj1' data='Manager/First_Manager.aspx' type='text/html' width='100%' height='1000' style='background:#FBFBFB;text-align:center;overflow:hidden;'></object>
problem 1: i force determinate height for object, what do i do for growing object element auto?
problem2: when i move between two big pages, at the return to first page scroll not return to top of page. it stay in the place of the before page.
for problem1: height:auto will helps....(Need some more code structure to dig the issue)
for your problem two put this javascript in your page for take the page to top.
(Note: Below code using jQuery you must refer jQuery.js in your page. )
<scripttype="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js">
$(document).ready(function(){
$(this).scrollTop(0);
});
</script>

Fixed header inside scrolling block

I'm trying to create a block which may or may not have a scrollbar, with a header that does not scroll. The trick is that the width of the header should be affected by the presence of a scrollbar.
I'm worried that this is one of those CSS use cases which should be trivial, but might, in fact, be impossible. Anyone willing to prove me wrong?
Here are a few pointers
http://davidchambersdesign.com/css-fixed-position-headers/
and there involve tables with fixed header and scrolling body
http://imar.spaanjaars.com/357/a-scrollable-table-with-a-fixed-header
http://anaturb.net/csstips/sheader.htm
You cannot do this with CSS alone. We must use javaScript. With jQuery you can do the following
var cw = $('#container').innerWidth(),
cs = $('#container').scrollTop();
$('#header').css({
'width': cw + "px"
});
$('#container').scroll(function() {
$('#header').css({
'top': $('#container').scrollTop(),
})
})
Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/VswxL/2/
I haven't figured out how to do this with CSS alone. So, here's a solution which uses JavaScript (here, jQuery), but only runs when he content changes. If the size of your wrapper depends on the size of the window, you may also need to run it on resize. Here's the heart of it:
$.fn.fitTo = function(target){
var $el = $(this);
$(target).bind('refit', function(){
$el.width(this.clientWidth);
});
}
Call $header.fitTo($content) to bind the header to a custom refit event on the element with the content. Now, whenever the content changes such that a scroll bar may have appeared or disappeared, do…
$content.trigger('refit');
…and the width of the header is reset to the clientWidth of the element containing content. The header must be outside the scrolling element.
Working example