Magic IFrame

Easy, responsive IFrames - Magic!

What is this "magic" IFrame?

Magic IFrame is a script to make iframes responsive.

Supported Browsers

This script relies on window.postMessage for communication between the parent and child pages. It also uses requestAnimationFrame but has a setTimout-based fallback for it. Currently, this works in all modern browsers and IE8+.

It requires JavaScript to work and there is no non-JavaScript fallback. Put down your tinfoil hats.

Usage — Inside IFrame

Include the following script tag inside the iframe:

<script src="magic-iframe.min.js" data-role="child"></script>

Usage — Embedding the IFrame

There are three ways to embed the responsive iframe in your page:

1. No existing IFrame tag

<script src="magic-iframe.min.js" data-role="parent" data-url="{{IFRAME_URL}}"></script>
<noscript><iframe src="{{IFRAME_URL}}" frameborder="0" style="width:100%;height:{{IFRAME_HEIGHT}}"></iframe></noscript>

The script will automatically write the iframe tag for you in its place.

If id or class attributes are present on the script tag, they will be transferred to the generated iframe tag. If an id is specified, the script will assign itself an ID in the format mif-script-{{ORIGINAL_ID}}.

2. Existing IFrame tag, method 1

<iframe id="{{IFRAME_ID}}" src="{{IFRAME_URL}}" frameborder="0" style="width:100%;height:{{IFRAME_HEIGHT}}"></iframe>
<script src="magic-iframe.min.js" data-role="parent" data-target="#{{IFRAME_ID}}"></script>

The data-target attribute can accept a selector that can be passed to document.querySelectorAll (jQuery will be used as a fallback). If the browser does not support document.querySelectorAll and jQuery is not present, only simple ID selectors are allowed.

If both the data-target and data-url attributes are present, both behaviors will be executed.

3. Existing IFrame tag, method 2

<iframe id="{{IFRAME_ID}}" src="{{IFRAME_URL}}" frameborder="0" style="width:100%;height:{{IFRAME_HEIGHT}}"></iframe>
<script src="magic-iframe.min.js"></script>
<script>
  MagicIframe.parent('#{{IFRAME_ID}}').init();
  // ... or ...
  MagicIframe.parent('[selector]').init();
  // ... or ...
  MagicIframe.parent(document.querySelector('[selector]')).init();
  // ... or ... (with jQuery)
  $('[selector]').magicIframe();
</script>

The selector rules above apply here. This method may be used alongside the two other methods without any conflicts.

If the iframe tag is not present on the page when the script is loaded (when loaded with AJAX for example), this method can be used to enable magic IFrame support on it.

Questions/Comments/Issues

Please submit an issue on this GitHub project. Pull requests are welcome!

Contributing

Clone, modify, use grunt to build, pull request. Thanks!