Archive for December, 2011

Full screen takeover of parent from iframe with javascript

December 16th, 2011

If you have an iframe with external content (aka poor mans integration) you might need to modify the size of the iframe dynamically. Security limitations on javascript can make this a little bit troublesome.

Here is a small how-to if you need to take over the screen from a link inside an iframe, as long as you’re using the same domain name on both the parent and the iframe page. The script below requires jQuery, but should be easy to rewrite if you use any other javascript framework.
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