New in Chrome 154: iframes that automatically resize themselves to their content

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# The Code

To make this work there is a two-way opt-in:

• The embedder (e.g. index.html) needs to set the frame-sizing CSS property with a value of auto, content-height, or content-width (or its logical variants) on the iframe.
• The document loaded in the <iframe> (e.g. iframe.html) needs to include a meta tag to indicate that it’s OK to communicate its size the parent embedder.

In code:

/* In styles.css for index.html */
iframe {
  frame-sizing: content-height;
  width: 100%;
}

<!-- In the iframe.html’s head -->
<meta name="responsive-embedded-sizing" content="allow-origins=*">

The content’s size is communicated from the embedded document after page load. To communicate a new size, the document in the frame must call window.requestResize();

Use allow-origins to limit which origins the document communicates its size info to.

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# Demo

Here’s a demo that contains a form which is an <iframe>. Whenever you go to a next step of the form, the <iframe> resizes itself to its contents … if your browser suppports frame-sizing that is.

Because the iframe resizes itself, the form is seamlessly embedded, without any scrollbar appearing at all.

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# Browser Support

Support for responsively size iframes is this:

Chromium (Blink)

✅ Supported in Chrome 154

Firefox (Gecko)

❌ No Support. There is no bug tracking this yet.

Safari (WebKit)

❌ No Support. There is no bug tracking this yet.

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# Learn More

Get all the details about responsive iframes on developer.chrome.com, in this article I co-authored: Responsive iframes in Chrome 154 →

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