iFrame height
iFrames, do they even still exist? Well integration with systems isn't aways APIs, XML and JSON magically working in harmony. Some times you have to integrate a web app into another site as quickly as possible, maintaining the sparation to avoid unpleasant upgrade costs. iFrames intially appear to be a great solution, but they do present a number of horrible problems. The worst offender IMO is the height property. Why on earth does setting the height to auto or 100% not allow the iFrame to fit the content it contains automatically? This would seem the most logical and common option, who likes scroll bars inside scroll bars? Well I guess those higher powers that design specifications seemed to decide that scrollbars are great. So far the best solution I have found so far is at Dynamic drive , a bit of JavaScript that automatically resizes the iFrame to fit the content. However, a word of warning I found I had to make some minor pixel adjustments ...