Is it possible to embed an existing web page into your own?

[edprush]

Let's say I want to embed http://www.festivals.com/culture/?eid=ptiz6%2bvReN0%3d into a web page on my site.

How do you do that?

 

[pstylesss]

Use an iFrame. Dated, but it'll do what you want.

 

[edprush]

So are there other options than iFrame? Does it matter that it's an old tag (do all browsers still recognize it)?


Thanks.

 

[Zontor]

Not all browsers recognize iFrames.

Off the top of my head [easy to more difficult]:

1] Load it into a regular frame.
2] Load it into a container such as a DIV
3] Grab the page markup using Ajax [search google for objxmlhttp]

There are other ways but these should be a good starting point.

Realize that if someone doesn't want their page to be embedded there are things that can be done to make it harder...it is considered more polite to link rather than embed.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Zontor
Not all browsers recognize iFrames.

Off the top of my head [easy to more difficult]:

1] Load it into a regular frame.
2] Load it into a container such as a DIV
3] Grab the page markup using Ajax [search google for objxmlhttp]

There are other ways but these should be a good starting point.

Realize that if someone doesn't want their page to be embedded there are things that can be done to make it harder...it is considered more polite to link rather than embed.

wouldn't 2 & 3 basically have to go together.


ajax isnt some magical thing you'd have to write a script for ajax to call so some java script could throw the markup into a div or span.

 

[troytime]

Originally posted by: hans007

Originally posted by: Zontor
Not all browsers recognize iFrames.

Off the top of my head [easy to more difficult]:

1] Load it into a regular frame.
2] Load it into a container such as a DIV
3] Grab the page markup using Ajax [search google for objxmlhttp]

There are other ways but these should be a good starting point.

Realize that if someone doesn't want their page to be embedded there are things that can be done to make it harder...it is considered more polite to link rather than embed.

wouldn't 2 & 3 basically have to go together.


ajax isnt some magical thing you'd have to write a script for ajax to call so some java script could throw the markup into a div or span.

so you'd write an ajax script that would call some javascript?

 

[edprush]

You guys are incredible.

Thanks.

 

[CTho9305]

For what it's worth, all main-stream browser support iframe. The only browser I can think of that doesn't is omnicab (some niche Mac browser).

xmlhttprequest won't work if the page you're embedding isn't on the same domain as your wrapper page.