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Posted in Code on 27th November 2006, 12:20 pm by Stuart

This morning I was perusing the links for light reading sent by Russ from the WSG when I came across this article: Insert HTML page into another HTML page, where the author had discovered a way to use the object element instead of iframes to display third party content within a page.

The main issue he had was getting IE to work with this method but ingeniously he solved this problem by working out the classid reference needed to use IE as a plugin to IE. This makes this solution work cross-browser.

In discussion this morning with my colleagues Brad and Mike. Brad went off and made a few optimisations by reducing the need to have separate object markup for IE and everything else as classid is a perfectly valid attribute. He also made a fix to the styling for IE so that the object renders correctly in HTML 4.01 strict too.

See Brad’s test case here: http://intranation.com/test-cases/object-vs-iframe/

Looks like this could be a viable technique that could be used to replace the use of iframes for loading in 3rd party content.

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http://boxofchocolates.ca Derek Featherstone

Brilliant! Would love to see some further examples that are a bit more complex and would love to do some low-level testing on them.
pigdart

Why use the “classid”, when the “codetype”(html4.01-xhtmlstrict) attribute works in Opera, Internet Explorer and Firefox?

example: …object codetype=”text/html” data=”some.html”…
http://www.frequency-decoder.com/ Brian McAllister

Hi guys & gals,

I ran across this testsuite that might also be helpful with this line of enquiry (they don’t use the classId though).
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dwyn

When using an object in place of an iframe, how do you “target” links to load into the object as you would with a static navbar that drives content into an iframe?

I tried using the traditional target=”content” and gave my object an id and name of “content” which worked for Firefox, but not for Internet Explorer.
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BigA

Would love it if this worked in IE7. Would be a great alternative to iframes.
http://meshgraphics.com Jonny

This do anything for ya, lads?

OBJECT WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=100 data="test.htm" /OBJECT
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