What's the difference between IFrame and Frame?

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Duncan picture Duncan · Jul 3, 2009 · Viewed 134.7k times · Source

Looking at options for embedding the 3D Secure page inside my own order form, I came across the following:

"Some commerce sites will devote the full browser page to the authentication rather than using a frame (not necessarily an iFrame, which is a less secure object anyway)."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

Can someone give me the lowdown as to why iframes are less secure, and cause problems, as opposed to normal frames? And what are the basic differences?

The way I see it, iframe is the way to go.

Answer

rahul picture rahul · Jul 3, 2009

The difference is an iframe is able to "float" within content in a page, that is you can create an html page and position an iframe within it. This allows you to have a page and place another document directly in it. A frameset allows you to split the screen into different pages (horizontally and vertically) and display different documents in each part.

Read IFrames security summary.

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