Tech Tip: Web Access 8.1: Viewing Web Access in an iframe
November 16th, 2009 Comment on this articleWeb Access 8.1 gives you the ability to view your Web Access site in an iframe, an embedded window (frame) that displays the contents of another Web page or document on your site. Users can view the information inside the iframe without having to navigate away from your Website.
For example, the City of Brown has a Website that citizens use for everything from paying parking tickets to applying for a job, and the city wants to give citizens the ability to download public documents from the Web Access site as well. The city embeds Web Access into its city Website via an iframe. This way, users will not have to leave the city’s site to access the Web Access documents. Instead, they can use Web Access and still remain on the city’s Website, which they are already familiar with.
To Display Web Access in an iframe on Your Website
- Insert this html into the body of the html page that will contain the iframe:
<iframe src=”http://machinename/laserfiche8″ width=”x” height=”y” id=”idname“>
<p>Message displayed when the browser does not support iframes</p>
</iframe>
- machinename: The name of the server where Web Access is installed.
- x: The width of the iframe (% or px).
- y: The height of the iframe (% or px).
- idname: The unique id given to the iframe. The id attribute can be used by Javascript or CSS to make changes to or style the specific iframe.
- Message displayed when the browser does not support iframes: This is a custom message you create to inform users they are using a browser that does not support iframes.
Note: There are other optional attributes you can add to your iframe besides width and height. For example: align, frameborder, marginheight, marginwidth, scrolling, etc.
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