I want to take confluence wiki content and embed into another site via iframe.

Scott October 2, 2015

How do I do this? How do I embed Confluence content into another site? Specifically into Jive, which has HTML tiles.. I tried, but it is not working.

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October 3, 2015

An iframe will pull in a whole web page.  Confluence will serve up whatever pages you want, as though you were looking in a browser, and it works fine with iframes, so whatever you're doing wrong, it's wrong in Jive, not Confluence.

(I would also point out that although I've said "it works fine", that's a technical point.  It's actually really ugly because you get everything - header, footer and the rest.  And you need to be logged in unless the pages are anonymously accessible. It's literally what you'd get in the browser, but in a small box)

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Philippe PEREZ July 25, 2017

Since 5.9, confluence is by default protected against the click-jacking.

This behavior can be changed by setting a property. But Atlassian basically advised that it will void your support contract if you have one.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-page-does-not-display-in-an-iframe-827335781.html

 

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Helen Griffith July 12, 2016

I am wanting an answer to this too... Is there anything I need to do in Confluence to enable pages to be embedded elsewhere?

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Jason Victor June 15, 2016

I'm having the same issue. I used to be able to embed a confluence page into another site's iFrame, but after the last upgrade going from 5.8.4 -> 5.9.12 ... it stopped working.  I get the following error now:

Screen Shot 2016-06-15 at 10.52.31 AM.png

Is there a security configuration that I would need to change for confluence to allow itself to be embedded in an iFrame?

Also, you mentioned above about the header and side-bar being embedded and how that's really ugly.  There is a script you can use on your confluence page to prevent the extra navigation elements from displaying (only if it's being embedded as an iFrame): 

<script type="text/javascript">
function inIframe () {
try
{ return window.self !== window.top; }
catch (e)
{ return true; }
}

AJS.toInit(function(){
if (inIframe()) {
AJS.$('header').hide();
if (AJS.$("div.ia-fixed-sidebar").width() > 55)
{ AJS.Confluence.Sidebar.toggle(); }
}
else
{ console.log("Detected OUTside iFrame"); }
});
</script>

And you could get this into a custom macro and include this on any pages you want to behave this way.  

And it used to work, but now after the upgrade, it does not.  Any ideas? 

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Mark_McGuire March 30, 2016

Did you ever get this working?  We haven't been able to.  Are there security restrictions in a Confluence page that prevent it from displaying in an iFrame from a different domain?  

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