Use iframe as a link?

Question

I am using an iframe and in the iframe I am loading a dynamic image. I want to use that image as a link to the respective article. Actually this is a news site.

I already have used many stuffs like:

<a href="whatever.."><iframe src="dynamic url"></iframe></a>

does work with IE but not with safari and FF.

and

some tweets like

div.iframe-link {
    position: relative;
}
a.iframe-link1 {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
}

code:

<div class="iframe-link">
    <iframe src="file" width="90px" height="60px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"
     marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" allowtransparency="true" noscaling="true">
    </iframe>
    <a href="url" target="_top" class="iframe-link1"></a>
</div>

worked in FF and Safari not in IE7,8.

SO can anybody suggest what to do..

any help would be appreciated.

---

The Iframe is loading a dynamic address of image like::::

<div class="news_img01">
    <div onclick="window.open('URL','_self')" style="cursor: pointer;"><br>
        <iframe scrolling="no" height="60px" frameborder="0" width="90px" noscaling="true" allowtransparency="true" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="thumbnails/1188.gif">
        </iframe>
    </div>
</div>

so i cant add tag inside but already wrapped tag inside . it worked for IE but not for others like FF, Safari..

Answer 1

You could create a overlay to make the area over a iframe clickable. This worked for me.

<div style="position:relative;">
<iframe src="somepage.html" width="500" height="500" />
<a href="redirect.html" style="position:absolute; top:0; left:0; display:inline-block; width:500px; height:500px; z-index:5;"></a>
</div>

I found this code snippet from this thread here: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/how-do-i-make-this-iframe-clickable.2320741/

Answer 2

According to your earlier comments, you were using the iframe in order to crop an image of unknown size to a 60 by 90 pixel box. To do this, use the overflow:hidden css attribute on the a tag, which slices off any content not fitting within the border-box.

<div class="news_img01">
    <a href="URL"
       style="display: block; width:90px; height:60px; overflow:hidden;">
        <img src="thumbnails/1188.gif" />
    </a>
</div>