About URL Display Portlets

A URL display portlet is a portlet that accesses a specified URL address and displays the returned information inside the portlet's borders. You can create your own URL display portlets to point to a URL that you specify. The URL can point to either a complete HTML page or to an HTML fragment.

When you create a URL display portlet, you usually specify a URL that points to a complete HTML page. The content can be located at any URL that you are able to access with your browser. For this type of content, you should choose to display the URL content in an inline frame within the portlet, as shown in this example:

Inline frames provide the following capabilities:

The portlet can display content that is outside the scope of the portal's security policies, content that uses alternative character encoding, and images that are referenced through relative paths.
When links are navigated within the frame, the portlet contents are refreshed without affecting the rest of the portal page.
The frame height can be set to a specified number of pixels, and scroll bars appear as necessary so that the entire HTML page can be viewed in the frame.

It is also possible to create a URL display portlet that points to an HTML fragment. The HTML fragment can be either a file on the server where the portal Web application is running, or a file on another Web server. This type of content can be displayed in the portlet without the inline frame option.

Note: Portlet content that is not displayed in an inline frame is subject to the portal's security policies. Therefore, URL display portlets without the inline frame option are usually created under the guidance of your site administrator. In addition, content that is not displayed in an inline frame uses as much space as necessary and might exceed the width of the portal column or page.

About URL Display Portlets

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