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How Do I Keep My Website From Being Viewed In a Frame?

Using Javascript to escape frames

By steve on January 11, 2007.
Updated on January 22, 2012.
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Article Types	Languages	Software Development	Technologies
Snippet	Javascript	Client side	Web Browsers

Summary

Certain websites, such as search engines or email providers, will forward to new web pages inside a frame so they can continue to show their own banner at the top of the page. This, in my humble opinion, is bad form--similar to popups.

You can actually force a browser to load your page and drop the frame using a little bit of javascript. Once again, I don't recommend this because it's generally a bad idea to mess with a person's browser (maybe they like the frame), but I have had occassion to use it when the frames caused problems for web page.

Example: How to escape a frame and load your page in the browser

<HTML> 
   <HEAD>   
      <SCRIPT language="javascript">
      <!--
         if (top != self) 
            top.location = location;
      //-->
      </SCRIPT>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>
      Test page.
   </BODY>
</HTML>

User Comments (3)

Posted 2007 Oct 26 02:27 AM.

How can I view a page with this script inside a frame? is it impossible?

I think that webs shouldn't take this decission, if you want to see a page out of frames you can use "open link in new window".

I'm looking for the way to keep webs with this script inside a frame, and it's not to show a banner.

Thanks!

Peto

Posted 2007 Dec 28 15:43 PM.

Is there a solution without scripting?

Charly

Replied 2008 Aug 09 10:53 AM by andrew.

as yet, no. However, if the W3C says so, there may be in future.

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