Title: Scroll parent window
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Scroll parent window

 *  Resolved [Taifuuni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taifuuni/)
 * (@taifuuni)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-parent-window/)
 * Hello!
 * I’m using you fantastic plugin to iframe my smf forum inside my wordpress site.
   My wordpress site’s height is 1500px. I like to set the iframe’s height to adjust
   according to the forum content. At the moment, the forum content stretches the
   site’s height to over 3000px. This is not the problem. The problem is that because
   all of the content in iframe is shows at once, I can’t mouse scroll (keeping 
   mouse wheel pressed) inside the iframe because it supposedly shows everything.
   If I want to mouse scroll, I have to place the mouse cursor over the sidebar.
   So my question is that can I link the iframe scrolling to the parent window?
 * – Taifuuni
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-iframe/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-iframe/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Taifuuni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taifuuni/)
 * (@taifuuni)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-parent-window/page/2/#post-5092248)
 * Normal Firefox settings, not in about:config. Here is an image of the settings,
   [http://i.imgur.com/l147w8b.png](http://i.imgur.com/l147w8b.png) . Texts are 
   in finnish but you should get the location.
 *  Thread Starter [Taifuuni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taifuuni/)
 * (@taifuuni)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-parent-window/page/2/#post-5092249)
 * I wonder if adding the iframe inside an extra div that is too small would help.
   Because that div would be smaller than the iframe, it would possibly add the 
   option to scroll the iframe. Now the autoscroll doesn’t work because the element
   doesn’t have anything to scroll because it adjusts its height to content, the
   scrollbar is in the parent window.
 *  Thread Starter [Taifuuni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taifuuni/)
 * (@taifuuni)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-parent-window/page/2/#post-5092250)
 * Just noticed that I can autoscroll in IE but not in Firefox & Chrome :facepalm:
 *  Plugin Author [mdempfle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdempfle/)
 * (@mdempfle)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-parent-window/page/2/#post-5092251)
 * No I have it.
 * You can make the iframe readonly with an extra layer above it which would solve
   this maybe but a readonly forum is not so cool.
 * I just think this is a browser dependent thing an nothing the plugin can really
   solve.
 *  Thread Starter [Taifuuni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taifuuni/)
 * (@taifuuni)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scroll-parent-window/page/2/#post-5092252)
 * It seems that this bug has been going for a while ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251903](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251903)).
   Lets hope that someone picks this up.

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