HTML iframe tag and element

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:39 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

HTML iframe element is used to include a web document within another web document.

Syntax

<iframe src="document" ></iframe>

Whether both start and end tags are required

Yes.

Can contain

HTML iframe element can contain inline elements and other block level elements.

Can reside within

HTML iframe element can reside within block level elements.

Attributes

longdesc, name, width, height.

Identifiers

id, class.

language information and text direction

lang, dir.

Title

Title.

Style

Style.

Frame controls and decoration

name, src, frameborder, marginwidth, marginheight, scrolling.

align

align attribute defines the alignment of text written within a p element. Values may be left for aligning the text left, right for aligning the text right and center for aligning the text center.

Events

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.

Supported doctypes

HTMl 4.01 transitional.

Example of using HTML iframe element

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>HTML iframe tag example - HTML tutorial | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="iframe.html">
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

Result

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HTML iframe tag example.

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