Automatically adjust height of iframe using React Hooks - javascript

I have been working on adjusting iframe height automatically.
The solutions with the problem are not working in React Hooks.
I have read Setting iframe height to scrollHeight in ReactJS and Adjust width and height of iframe to fit with content in it. I have explored additional posts and tried several times for almost a week. However, I have not found a proper way to figure this out.
I simplified what I have tried. My code
Apart from my code, I also tried iframeResizer.min.js, yet it is not working. I believe it is because react generates dynamically. I found iframe-resizer-react and tried but I have not found a way to solve it.
Can anybody have the same situation? How can I adjust iframe height automatically in React Hooks?

from Setting iframe height to scrollHeight in ReactJS :
Use the onLoad() handler from the iframe to ensure that the content has loaded before you try to resize it - if you try to use React's lifecycle methods like componentDidMount() you run the risk of the content not being present yet.
function FrameWrapper() {
const ref = React.useRef();
const [height, setHeight] = React.useState("0px");
const onLoad = () => {
setHeight(ref.current.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + "px");
};
return (
<iframe
ref={ref}
onLoad={onLoad}
id="myFrame"
src="http://demo_iframe.htm"
width="100%"
height={height}
scrolling="no"
frameBorder="0"
style={{
maxWidth: 640,
width: "100%",
overflow: "auto",
}}
></iframe>
);
}
PS: You will run into issues with cross-origin policy if the iframe is in a different domain.

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page has different height when inside an iframe

I've googled a bit and there were a few leads, but I couldn't get any of those leads to work:
I have a page that has an iframe with the src pointing to an external page (cross domain). When the child/iframed page loads, it posts a message of its height. I put a console.log of the height in the javascript. If I open that page in a separate window (type the iframe's src URL in a separate tab, in other words), the console logs the expected height.
However, when I open the parent page with the iframe, the console logs either 0 or a very incorrect value of 150. I've looked through the css and html, and I don't have any specifications of 150.. Anyone have a clue what's going on here?
Abstracted code:
Parent HTML:
...
<iframe src="example.childpage.com" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0"></iframe>
...
Parent Javascript:
...
$(document).ready(function(){
window.addEventListener('message', function(m){
var messageData = m.data;
if(messageData.type=='document-loaded' &&
messageData.hasOwnProperty('height'){
resize_iframe(messageData.height); //function defined else where
//and works
};
});
...
IFrame Javascript:
...
$(document).ready(function(){
var body = document.body;
var html = document.documentElement;
var maxHeight = Math.max(body.scrollHeight, body.offsetHeight,
html.clientHeight, html.scrollHeight, html.offsetHeight);
//Logs height correctly when opened in a separate window but not when
//iframed
console.log("POSTING HEIGHT", maxHeight);
window.parent.postMessage({'type':'document-loaded', 'height': maxHeight},
PARENT_HOST_URL); //PARENT_HOST_URL defined elsewhere
});
...
I realize I have a mixture of jquery and vanilla javascript here; I've done both $(document).height() and the Math.max() shown above to get the height, but both ways still have the same issue.
Much thanks!
ok I finally found a good solution:
$('iframe').load(function() {
this.style.height =
this.contentWindow.document.body.offsetHeight + 'px';
});
Because some browsers (older Safari and Opera) report onload completed before CSS renders you need to set a micro Timeout and blank out and reassign the iframe's src.
$('iframe').load(function() {
setTimeout(iResize, 50);
// Safari and Opera need a kick-start.
var iSource = document.getElementById('your-iframe-id').src;
document.getElementById('your-iframe-id').src = '';
document.getElementById('your-iframe-id').src = iSource;
});
function iResize() {
document.getElementById('your-iframe-id').style.height =
document.getElementById('your-iframe-
id').contentWindow.document.body.offsetHeight + 'px';
}
I had a function that looped through not-yet-accessible elements and called $(element).hide() on them -- which sets the style display: none.
Turns out calculating the height of an element is respective of its visibility on the actual page, regardless of it being in an iframe. So the browser couldn't see it, so the height was being miscalculated (still weird it was returning a random 150px value). That explains why it was calculating correctly on a separate page.
Instead of doing hide(), I just set the visibility to hidden and that fixed my issue of getting the incorrect heights.

iframe auto height without scroll doesn't work

I have a page that contains an iframe. I have tried to remove the scroll with the attribute scrolling=no and scroll='no' but without result.
So I want it to be able to adjust its height according to the contents inside it, without using scroll.
Here is my code:
<script>
function resizeIframe(obj) {
obj.style.height = obj.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + 'px';
}
</script>
<iframe src="" frameborder="0" onload="resizeIframe(this)" scrolling="no > </iframe>
I dont fully understand what you are trying to accomplish here and I presume the Iframe doesnt provide an API to handle this for you.
No scrolling:
Its a workaround but: fix this by wrapping the Iframe with a div, putting it on top of it with z-index. The cursor will not access the Iframe like this. Also want to be able to click it? Add an onclick function removing the diff or the css of the div.
Altering the height:
Just dont specify height and width and the IFrame will handle this for you?
About the code:
Im not familiar with the onload function but presuming it runs after the loading of the Iframe...
obj.style.height
should be
obj.height

React: Can't get correct width of element after render

I'm trying to setup a Marquee in React if a piece of text is greater than its container but I can't get the correct width of the container, even after the component has rendered.
I read in another answer React “after render” code? that you have to use requestAnimationFrame which I'm trying and it's still not working.
If I log the width of the container it shows a width of 147px which is set using min-width in the stylesheet but the correct width should be 320px which is set using a media query when the screens min-width is 600px.
This is a child component, the parent is rendered inside an iFrame if it makes any difference and the iFrame's width is well over 600px.
The JS:
module.exports = React.createClass({
componentDidUpdate: function () {
// Setup marquee
this.initMarquee();
},
render: function () {
// Setup marquee
this.initMarquee();
var artistName = this.props.artist.artistName;
var trackName = this.props.track.trackName;
return (
<div className="MV-player-trackData no-select" ref="mvpTrackData">
<div className="MV-player-trackData-marquee-wrap" ref="mvpMarqueeWrap">
<div className="MV-player-trackData-marquee" ref="mvpMarquee">
<a className="MV-player-trackData-link no-select" href={this.props.storeUrl} target="_blank">
<span id="mvArtistName">{artistName}</span> – <span id="mvTrackName">{trackName}</span>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
)
},
initMarquee: function () {
if ( typeof requestAnimationFrame !== 'undefined' ) {
//store a this ref, and
var self = this;
//wait for a paint to setup marquee
window.requestAnimationFrame(function() {
self.marquee();
});
}
else {
// Suport older browsers
window.setTimeout(this.marquee, 2000);
}
},
marquee: function () {
var marquee = React.findDOMNode(this.refs.mvpMarquee);
var marqueeWrap = React.findDOMNode(this.refs.mvpMarqueeWrap);
// If the marquee is greater than its container then animate it
if ( marquee.clientWidth > marqueeWrap.clientWidth ) {
marquee.className += ' is-animated';
}
else {
marquee.className = marquee.className.replace('is-animated', '');
}
}
});
The CSS:
.MV-player-trackData-marquee-wrap {
height: 20px;
line-height: 20px;
min-width: 147px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
#media only screen and (min-width : 600px) {
min-width: 320px;
}
}
I've tried a number of different solutions including laidout and react-component-width-mixin but neither of them work. I tried react component width mixin because in another part of my app I'm trying to get the value of window.innerWidth but that also returns 0 after rendering, unless I set a timeout for around 2 seconds, unfortunately though sometimes 2 seconds isn't long enough due to data loading and other callbacks so this can brake easily.
Any help is really appreciated. Thanks.
Update:
One of the answers correctly pointed out i should be calling this.initMarquee(); inside componentDidMount which I was doing, unfortunately I pasted the wrong code from when I was testing to see if it made a difference calling it inside render. The correct code looks like this:
componentDidMount: function () {
// Setup marquee
this.initMarquee();
},
Unfortunately this doesn't work either, I still receive the incorrect width for marqueeWrap.
Update: 24/06/2015
Just to clarify, this is the marquee effect I'm trying to achieve, only when the text is bigger than its container as it's pointless scrolling it when it is not bigger.
Also here is a link to a Github Issue from the React team speaking about why React renders before the browser paints. - So as that is the case, I want to know how do I reliably get the width of the element in question.
One possible problem that can occur is that your CSS has not loaded yet when componentDidMount fires. This can happen with webpack and including the css in your bundle that also contains your js even if you have included the css before your component in the project.
There are several issues, as you've pointed out, in dealing with the virtual DOM. You definitely don't want to be attempting to use jQuery to manipulate DOM nodes and React is likely to scream at your for attempting to.
There's a library called React-Context which would do exactly what you're asking. You would expose its api to your wrapper component and then be able to listen to events on components within the virtual dom.
This library is a little dusty, however it should work with the code sample you shared.
You should not call this.initMarquee(); in the render() method.
In general, you should not work with the DOM at all in the render() method.
Try to call this.initMarquee(); in the componentDidMount method.
(and I really don't understand the usage of requestAnimationFrame in this case)

jQuery.contents() Gives a strange result

I'm having a very strange occurrence when using an IFrame and jQuery.Contents.
We have a number of reports that are built in seperate pages, and a display page that uses jQuery Tabs to display a number of these pages at once.
These reports are of varying sizes based on the data and the inputs by the user, since they can vary we needed to dynamically set the height of the IFrame to be the height of the contents. To get the height of the contents I am using this following code :
var iframeHeight = $(this).contents().height();
iframeHeight += 50;
console.log(iframeHeight);
This code works fine on first load, but after the IFrame Postsback/Refreshes the iframeHeight that is logged is always 83px more than the previous height, regardless of the actual contents of the child page.
i.e. First report is 500px high,
Second report should be 300px high
but $(this).contents().height(); returns 583px.
Here is an example jsFiddle to demonstrate the problem. If you open the console and then click the JSFiddle Icon in the top left of the IFrame, you will notice that the logged height will be 83px more than the previous.
Is there anything that could explain this issue?
Am I miss-understanding how the jQuery.Contents function works?
If this will not work this way is there a better way to get the content height? (I've tried the height of the body + the height of the form object but this didn't work in IE).
Tested this in IE10 + Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57 m
Here is an implementation that seems to work (for expanding/shrinking contents..)
assuming that iframe's src is from the same domain and that there are not scripts that resize the iframe's contents once loaded
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#frameID').on('load', function () {
$('#ReportBuild').hide()
$(this).show();
var iframeHeight = $(this.contentDocument.documentElement).outerHeight(true);
$(this).css({ height: iframeHeight + 'px' });
this.contentWindow.onbeforeunload = function () {
$('.tabFrame').hide();
$('#ReportBuild').show();
}
});
});
Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/rq5S5/8/
With help I managed to finally find a solution, suggested examples worked on JSFiddle's but would not work when applied to my issue using ASP.NET controls generated on PostBack.
To handle this, on each of my Child pages I have wrapped the entire content inside a <div></div> and retrieved the height of this element.
Example :
<div id="ReportContent">
<!-- HTML Content -->
</div>
And the jQuery Code :
var iframeHeight = $(this).contents().find('#ReportContent').outerHeight(true);
This now works correctly for my problem in both IE10 and Google Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57 m

set fancybox height with jquery

I want to show a fancybox on my page displaying an iframe with a source of another domain that has dynamic height (since within the iframe I'll go to different pages or might have some dynamic content). I have access to the other domain's code as well. So I can use postMessage to send the iframe's source's height to my page. But I can't seem to figure how to change the fancybox's height through code.
I tried setting the height of all the divs that contain the iframe, including the iframe itself:
document.getElementById('fancybox-frame').height = parseInt(height);
document.getElementById('fancybox-content').height = parseInt(height);
document.getElementById('fancybox-outer').height = parseInt(height);
document.getElementById('fancybox-wrap').height = parseInt(height);
and I know that I'm getting the height through all right since it works perfectly on a directly integrated iframe.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Edit:
I also tried $.fancybox.update() but I'm not really sure on how to implement that:
$.fancybox({
'height': height
});
$.fancybox.update();
Have you tried the built in $.fancybox.update() method? The the documentation suggests (under API Methods) that this method should provide the functionality you're looking for.
Found it, you have to change following attributes
document.getElementById('fancybox-content').style.height = parseInt(height) + 'px';
document.getElementById('fancybox-frame').height = parseInt(height);

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