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Asked: 2026-06-10T05:23:04+00:00

Yet another cross-domain iFrame question! I’ve search everywhere and believe this is impossible, so

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Yet another cross-domain iFrame question! I’ve search everywhere and believe this is impossible, so here goes:

The scrollbars of an iframe are part of that iframe’s window element, so because of the same origin policy I can’t directly style them. At first I thought I’d be clever and create a scrollable DIV using jQuery UI draggable event within a “track” container. I setup a dummy scrollbar and everything was working, excepting being able to scroll the iframe… again because of the same origin problem.

So..

  1. Is there a way to style an iframe’s scrollbars if the iframe content is from a different domain?

OR

  1. Is there a way to scroll an iframe if the iframe content is from a different domain?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming you can figure out the size of the site somehow, you could set the size of the iframe to that content’s size…

    <html>
<body>
<div style="width:400px; height:400px; overflow:scroll">
    <iframe src="http://www.w3schools.com/" style="width:1000; height:1300"></iframe>
</div>
</body>
</html>

    Of course, then you need to figure out the size of the site periodically…

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