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HTML HTML Objects Includes and iframes

Harry Tran
Harry Tran
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Posted by Harry Tran
Harry Tran
10,618 Points

What are iFrames used for?

I use to understand that iFrame would be able to pretty much hotlink another site, but for professional site building what's the use of creating an iframe element?

1 Answer

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
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Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
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The HTML <iframe> tag is used to specify an inline frame, or, as the HTML5 specification refers to it, a nested browsing context.

An inline frame allows you to embed another document within the current HTML document. It also allows you to provide an inline frame without using another document - by simply passing the content to the <iframe> via the srcdoc attribute.

Inline frames are often used in online advertising, where the contents of the <iframe> is an ad from an external party.

Inline frames are typically created using a second HTML document. This second document contains the content within the inline frame. You use the iframe src attribute to specify the source of the other document, as well as other attributes to determine the height, width etc.

Harry Tran
Harry Tran
10,618 Points
Harry Tran
Harry Tran
10,618 Points

Thank you Hugo, that seems to make sense to me why they're useful.