how to properly display an iFrame in mobile safari
css, iframe, mobile-safari
Solution
Yeah, you can't constrain the iframe itself with height and width. You should put a div around it. If you control the content in the iframe, you can put some JS within the iframe content that will tell the parent to scroll the div when the touch event is received.
like this:
The JS:
setTimeout(function () {
var startY = 0;
var startX = 0;
var b = document.body;
b.addEventListener('touchstart', function (event) {
parent.window.scrollTo(0, 1);
startY = event.targetTouches[0].pageY;
startX = event.targetTouches[0].pageX;
});
b.addEventListener('touchmove', function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var posy = event.targetTouches[0].pageY;
var h = parent.document.getElementById("scroller");
var sty = h.scrollTop;
var posx = event.targetTouches[0].pageX;
var stx = h.scrollLeft;
h.scrollTop = sty - (posy - startY);
h.scrollLeft = stx - (posx - startX);
startY = posy;
startX = posx;
});
}, 1000);
The HTML:
<div id="scroller" style="height: 400px; width: 100%; overflow: auto;">
<iframe height="100%" id="iframe" scrolling="no" width="100%" id="iframe" src="url" />
</div>
If you don't control the iframe content, you can use an overlay over the iframe in a similar manner, but then you can't interact with the iframe contents other than to scroll it - so you can't, for example, click links in the iframe.
It used to be that you could use two fingers to scroll within an iframe, but that doesn't work anymore.
Update: iOS 6 broke this solution for us. I've been attempting to get a new fix for it, but nothing has worked yet. In addition, it is no longer possible to debug javascript on the device since they introduced Remote Web Inspector, which requires a Mac to use.
Problem
I'm trying to display an iframe in my mobile web application, but I'm having trouble restricting the size of the iframe to the dimensions of the iPhone screen. The height and width attributes on the iframe element seem to have no effect, strangely. Surrounding it with a div manages to constrain it, but then I'm unable to scroll within the iframe. Has anyone tackled iframes in mobile safari before? Any ideas where to start?