How to embed any website into your website?

Do you want to embed a website into your website? But you can't figure out how to do it, you are at the right place then.

When embedding a website or a webpage is concerned, what comes into picture is the <iframe> tag of HTML. Using this, you can literally embed any webpage, YouTube channel, Instagram account or any thing that has a link. Keep reading below...

Why to embed a website in your website?

Talking about embedding a website into yours, you might ask that why should it be done, here are some benefits that you should consider:

Embedding others website into yours allow people to read much content without ever leaving your website. This will increase your website's traffic quality and SEO ranking as people will visit your website more and more and for longer time.

How to embed literally any website into your website?

Let's take an example that you want to embed the Wikipedia website into your website so that you visitors could search and read about a topic easily. Then, you will have to make an iframe of it. Here's a basic of it:

And the above code will look like this:

Here, the src attribute denotes the source of the iframe, i.e. which website has been embedded. Changing the source to any link you want, you can embed practically any thing to your website.

What changes can you do?

Now you can make desired changes into this code using various HTML attributes. If you want to fix a specific height and width, then use the height and width attribute. To enable scrolling, you may use the scrolling attribute and as always for some styling, you can use the style attribute.

Here's an example:

The above example will look like this:

Is it legit?

It is a crucial factor to know whether doing so is legit or not. And fortunately, it is legit with some limitations. It is legal to embed any iframe into your website unless you claim that it's your own or do anything fradulent or deceptive.

Also if the website owner wishes not to embed his iframe, and so is mentioned in his Term Of Service, it's illegal to do so.

Conclusion:

I also use this feature and why won't I. And that, now you know how to practically bed anything to your website that has a link, enjoy. It will be great if you embed my website too. Just click here.

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