Background color or image problem of an iFrame in IE

Few days ago I have faced background image problem for iFrame in IE and search in web for the solution but i did not get any help. Then I have tried to solve it and finally I have solved this by using following two attributes background: transparent; and background-color: transparent;
Below is the source HTML of main page from where iFrame has been included which is used frame.html:


<html>
<head>
<title>iFrame</title>
<style type="text/css">
.iframe {
background: transparent;
background-image: url('sample.jpg');
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="frame.html" height="100%" width="100%" allowtransparency="true" class="iframe"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Below is the source code of frame.html:


<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body style="background-color: transparent;">
<table>
<tr>
<td height="200" width="300" valign="middle" align="center">
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Though I have solved the background problem in IE by above code but i am suggesting to use color in place of image for following two reasons:

  • It may create problem to load bulky file by Ajax request.
  • Sometimes it may flicker white color before loading file.

2 Comments

  1. It is working fine. I also faced the problem but i didn't get proper help in net. Thanks for this post

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