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Embedding resources with iFrames

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Embedding resources with iFrames

- [Instructor] Let's continue to build on this idea of adding content to your pages from other sites. In this chapter, we're going to explore the primary HTML tool that educators need to know for adding rich content from other sites on to your pages. And that is with in-line frames or iFrames for short. Think of an iFrame as creating a small window in your own page that shows your learners rich media that's on another page. One of the best things about iFrames is that the basic code is written for you on the other site. The trick is knowing first where to look for the code and then, what kind of manipulations you can do to the code to customize the rich media for your own site. The basic iFrame code is pretty straight forward. In fact, it's nearly identical to the image tag that you learned about in the last chapter. The iFrame tag looks like this. The name of the tag is iFrame, then there's a source or src attribute that points to the URL of the remote page. Then, there's also a…

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