Dreamweaver CS3 has iFrame support

A very obscured feature I have overlooked is the support of iFrame in Dreamweaver CS3. It wasn’t even mentioned in the Help documentation. In the Layout insert toolbar, I noticed there is a new iFrame object. Somehow the Properties Inspector does not see the object. Fortunately, the Tag panel can be used to set the attributes of the object so I don’t have to resort to handcode all the time. Another point to note is that DW does not render the content in design view. I hope in future release, the object will be improved.

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~ by brianchau on May 12, 2007.

12 Responses to “Dreamweaver CS3 has iFrame support”

  1. is it just me or was that bothersome, I have been working with Golive since it was owned by cyber Studio. DW seems like a mess and takes allot of work to figure out simple things that have been drag and drop since GoLive1.0 to bad adobe killed the program.

    thanks for the iframe info

    josh said this on June 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm

  2. I agree, found your blog searching if it was me dumb or DW not supporting well iframe…. I switched again to golive… but I hope they will fix DW as golive will not have new versions :(

    moreorless said this on September 26, 2007 at 2:04 pm

  3. I know this post is old, but Brian - can you tell me WHERE in DWCS3 I can find this new iframe object? I’ve looked and looked and can’t locate it. Tutorials on the web aren’t helpful. Please let me know if you can. Thanks. Email me at april_hoffmann AT yahoo.com
    Thanks

    april said this on November 16, 2007 at 5:57 am

  4. April, it is in the Layout toolbar, the 4th last object next to the Frames object.

    brianchau said this on November 16, 2007 at 6:52 am

  5. Wow I’m glad I saw this forum, I thought I was being stupid too. I also used GoLive for years, and loved the iFrame for scrolling text etc within a page. It’s so easy! In DW it’s totally different and really annoying, and I have yet to figure it out.

    Anthony said this on January 28, 2008 at 2:51 am

  6. The only way I’ve been able to figure it out so far was to go in to golive, make an iframe, bring it back in to dreamweaver, and study the tag attributes. Agreed that they should come up with something better than this for Dreamweaver though.

    Crystal said this on February 5, 2008 at 2:55 pm

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    Buy keftab said this on March 19, 2008 at 2:42 pm

  8. I was having problems with how DW render the IFRAME. My work around is to put iframe inside a div.

    Miguel said this on April 28, 2008 at 3:51 am

  9. Hi webmaster!

    Kazelfka said this on May 24, 2008 at 2:45 pm

  10. I also put the IFRAME in a div. From the menu go to ‘insert’ - ‘html’ - ‘frame’ and choose ‘iframe’. Then I choose ’split’ to see both the code and design. I right-click on the ‘<iframe’ tag and choose edit tag. There you will have some better options. I hope that helps some.

    Matt Elliot said this on May 24, 2008 at 6:15 pm

  11. Can some tell me how to do an iFrame please. When I click on the small picture it will go in the iFrame

    Matthew Johnstone said this on June 1, 2008 at 9:14 am

  12. Matthew, click the iFrame object will insert the iFrame onto the page. Unfortunately, it only insert the code and you have to click refresh to see it in the display view. And to set the properties of the iFrame, you can do it with the Tag Inspector, not the Properties Inspector.

    brianchau said this on June 1, 2008 at 11:54 pm

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