{"id":7016,"date":"2011-07-13T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T07:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/inline-frame\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:13:21","slug":"inline-frame","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/13639\/inline-frame-iframe","title":{"rendered":"Inline Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_inline_frame_mean\">What Does Inline Frame Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An Inline Frame (IFRAME\/IFrame) element allows one HTML document to be embedded within another HTML document. IFrames may be used in a variety of ways to enhance the user website experience, including displaying advertising content and comparing multiple documents.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_inline_frame\">Techopedia Explains Inline Frame<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An IFrame element may contain another HTML document or even an entire website within the same browser window. In addition to having an independent scrollbar, the IFrame can serve as a link target, be printed and contains viewable source code. The IFrame allows Web programmers to change frame content via the utilization of client-side scripting (JavaScript) without requiring the website to be reloaded, allowing for interactive Web applications.\n<\/p>\n<p>In early 2008, hackers distributed harmful iFrame content within search engine results, and a number of well-known websites, (for example, ABC News), were victimized. When such an i Frame overlay attack occurs, hackers embed iFrames within highly-trafficked websites to redirect users to websites containing malicious content, which is automatically downloaded when the websites are accessed.\n<\/p>\n<p>As of HTML 5, framing (as implemented by the FRAME, FRAMESET and NOFRAMES HTML elements) were made obsolete, with the exception of the IFrame element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does Inline Frame Mean? 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