Scrollable Window Inside a Window

Xah Lee, 2009-01

This page shows how to have a scrollable window inside a window.

If you are using HTML 4.01 transitional or XHTML 1.1 transitional, you can use “iframe”, like this:

<iframe src="some.html"
longdesc="iframe_longdesc.html" width="200" height="200"
align="right" frameborder="1" scrolling="auto">
For browsers that doesn't support iframe, this content is displayed.
</iframe>

Iframe is not supported in HTML 4.01 Strict nor XHTML 1.1 Strict. To have the same effect, use “object” tag. See: HTML 4.1 Strict Scrollable Window Inside a Window

References:

• http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html#edef-IFRAME
• Iframe
• http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/iframe.html

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