Yesterday I posted this blog All Aboard The Framing XPress showing the Active Rain Home Page embedded in a blog post.
The html function I used is called an INLINE FRAME ... And it's purpose is to embed one HTML document within another. There is no FRAMESET involved, so your meta tags and keywords are all still available.
Want to embed something in an Active Rain blog post, right now? Here's how:
- Write up a test blog.
- Select Visibility: Draft
- Click "Post Blog Entry"
- After the screen refreshes, click "Edit"
- Switch to the HTML view
Copy and paste this code into your blog post:
<p align="center"><iframe src="http://www.activerain.com" height="450" width="450" scrolling="yes"></iframe></p>
Hit "Post Blog Entry" again, and there you go.
Just remember that here on Active Rain, if you go back to edit that particular post again, you'll need to stay in HTML view. (Which means remembering to add formatting tags by hand)
Of course, you can change the target URL in the little code snippet to whatever you want. You can change the width and height attributes to fit your page. If you want to make the scroll bars disappear, change scrolling="yes" to scrolling="no". To make the border around the outside of the frame disappear add frameborder="0" either before or after the scrolling attribute. Take out the center alignment tags if that suits your design.
Just be sure not to abuse this functionality by presenting someone else's work as your own, which over the years has been a common compliant about web sites using frames...
References:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/frames/inlineframes.html
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/frames/article.php/3479271
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html
Cheryl - Thank you so much for sharing this. Every time I think I have found the coolest new tech thing something else comes along. This one is huge! Here is my first attempt: click here
I'm so glad my begging worked! Thanks.
Maureen -- Yeah, that works. Looks Good!
Ya know, Inline Frames have been around since about, I think, 2001 -- first as a Microsoft Internet Explorer only thing. Then the other major browsers got on board.... I just recently realized how useful they could be.... well, better late than never :-)
This was wonderful.
I put my ActiveRain blog on my website following your instructions Cheryl. At the BlogTour USA stop Friday we had a question about whether we can do that ...put our blog on our personal (company) websites... I have done an AR entry about it for Real Living agents.
Cheryl, thank you sincerely for all that you teach us here. I don't say that enough to you.
THANK YOU !!!!!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Cheers,
Cindy
IFrame is one of the handiest little tricks around! Glad ya'll liked the post.
very helpful Cheryl. Thanks a bazillion. I told my husband we could search on Active Rain for the answer!