Gmail – Is it possible to include an iframe in a Gmail message

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Is it possible to include a web page in a Gmail message?

The reason I'm asking is that sometimes I have a Google Docs form I want to send to people and was wondering if I can embed the form in my email. I know I can email the form in Google Docs, but sometimes if I email to a group address it may not get through.

If you create a HTML page and put the following in it, you can see that it gets embedded. I wonder if I can do this in an email message.

<iframe src="http://www.google.com" width="760" height="585" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>

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You can't really embed the iframe inside the GMail (unless maybe if you are using 3rd party clients) but there is a work around for this that you can try:

Send the form to your GMail
Then forward that e-mail to anyone you want (You can edit the page and removing the things that you don't want)

Run the tests by sending the form to yourself first and if you are using Plain Text while you are composing you have to change it to Rich Text before forwarding the original mail.

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Gmail – Why is Gmail in an iFrame

According to the Gmail blog, an iFrame is used to host the code which handles gmail so that messages opened in new windows can be used without having to reload resources, and can persist even if the parent window is closed. See this blog post for some more details on how it works.

For the technically curious among you, our friends on the Chrome team made it possible to transfer the code that runs Gmail from one window to another as the window closes. When the window that hosts the code fires an unload event, we move the iframe with the code to a surviving window. Everything continues to run, including timers and outstanding requests.

eBay – How to Include iframes in Listings

There is no catch as there are no iframes allowed for use in any eBay listing.

You can't use HTML or JavaScript that:

Calls remote scripts and pages automatically, such as JavaScript "includes" or "iframes."

...

What you are seeing in some listings is how the server has chosen to render the listing according to the browser.

In some it will be loaded fully embedded as part of the page. On others, it will be loaded in an iframe. Both will be using the same information.

An example listing viewed via Opera shows this in the source code:

<div class="sh-cnt u-cb">
    </div>
<div id="desc_div">
    <table align="center" style="border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;">
        <tr>
            <td>
                <div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
                    content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
                <title>Boutique Chérie</title>
...

However, the same while using Firefox renders this:

<div class="sh-cnt u-cb">
    </div>
<div id="desc_div">
    <iframe id="desc_ifr" height="10000" width="99%" 
        marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" 
        src="http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?etc"
        title="Seller's description of item"></iframe>
</div>
...

Same listing, different rendering.

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