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Displaying image in Iframe

Asked 2010-11-10T21:53:18.527
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I want to display an image within an iframe on my webpage. However, the problem is that I can't get it to expand to 100% of its size.

What I want to do is the following.

  • Have an iframe on my webpage.
  • Call an image within the iframe.
  • Make the image expand to full-size and as a reaction, the iframe allows me to scroll.
  • Not have any scroll bars on my webpage

Currently, here's the code I have:

echo"<iframe name='graph' id='graph' src=$image style='position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; height:100%;width:100%'></iframe>";

What this does is that, it makes the iframe come on top of my webpage and still doesn't expand to 100%. If i remove the position:absolute instead:

echo"<iframe name='graph' id='graph' src=$image style='top:0px; left:0px; height:100%;width:100%'></iframe>";

I end up getting it to expand in width to 100%, but in terms of height, it is just 3 pixels high and there is a scrollbar to scroll to the bottom.

I scoured the web looking for a fix, but nothing I tried works. Some mentioned changing CSS as well, but to no avail ...

EDIT

Another problem I face is that the image is zoomed out in Firefox. I need to click on the image within the iframe to expand it to its full size. It shows up correctly in Chrome and IE though. Is there a fix for this?

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The container (the enclosing div, if you don't have a container you should create one,) seems to be what is limiting the height of the iframe. Try making the height of the container 100%.

answered 2010-11-10T21:57:44.853
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Your problem is that you are directly embedding an image resource.

This is never going to work the way you want. The image is always going to be original size.

You need to set the src property of the iframe to a separate HTML file with a body of its own, wrapping around the image. Then you can give it 100% width and/or height inside the body using CSS.

answered 2010-11-10T22:02:01.997

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