Iframe Manipulation

I am looking for a way to load an iframe pre-scrolled to a point in the page. Is there a way to do this?

 

in HTML:
edit page.html and put an anchor in the middle (<a name="my_anchor"></a> )
now the src of the iframe can be http://yoursite.com/page.html#my_anchor and it will jump to the anchor.

in JS:
calculate offsets of the page and other stuff and use window.scrollTo (or other compatible function) on load.


in the HTML, you'll have to own the page. in JS, you can use your parent frame (browser) to control the iframe, so you can scrollTo on any page (haven't tried, but sounds like a plan)

 

Just to clarify - "id" should be used instead of "name" for the HTML solution. The "name" attribute is deprecated, and shouldn't be used. The rest will be exactly the same.

 

some frame JavaScript samples from my library, maybe they're useful?

 

I think you may only be able to do this if the page within the iframe is yours. I don't think a browser will allow you to change anything if the page is in a remote location.