Home/ Questions/Q 8211021
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-07T10:17:04+00:00

Is it possible to animate the re-sizing of a frame in html? I have

  • 0

Is it possible to animate the re-sizing of a frame in html?

I have a webpage where there a are two frames horizontally stacked (say 500px, remaining). Upon click of a ‘minimize’ image, the frame to the left is shrunk to around 100px. Is it possible to animate this shrinking via jquery/javascript/css?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    If you are seeking to animate inner frames then I would go with Dr Molle’s answer. If, however you are seeking to animate a frameset, you will have to do it manually. The example below illustrates. To examine it, you ‘d better use a local web server to avoid problems with cross – domain restrictions (at least in Chrome, haven’t tested it anywhere else…).

    frame1.html

    <html>
    <body>
        frame 1
        <br />
        <a href='#' class='minimize'>Minimize</a>

        <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
        <script type='text/javascript'>
            $(function () { 
                $('.minimize').click(function (evt) {
                    evt.preventDefault();
                    window.parent.minimize();
                    return false;
                });
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

    frame2.html

    <html><body>frame 2</body></html>

    frameset.html

    <html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
        <script type='text/javascript'>
            $(function () { 
                var minimizeInterval = null;
                var current = 500;
                var pace = 15;
                var stop = 100;

                window.minimize = function () {
                    minimizeInterval = setInterval(function () {
                    console.log('minimizing...');
                        $('frameset').attr('cols', current + ',*');
                        current -= pace;
                        if (current < stop) 
                            clearInterval(minimizeInterval);
                    }, 10);
                };
            });
        </script>
    </head>

    <frameset cols="500,*">
        <frame id='frame1' src="frame1.html"></frame>
        <frame id='frame2' src="frame2.html"></frame>
    </frameset>
</html>
    • 0