# Discourse not shown in iframe

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-shown-in-iframe/26970>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [30 במרץ,‏ 2015,‏ 1:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-shown-in-iframe/26970 "2015-03-30T01:45:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![osioke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/osioke/32/238946_2.png) [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)\
**Post date:** [23 באפריל,‏ 2021,‏ 12:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-shown-in-iframe/26970/27 "2021-04-23T12:16:32Z")

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Hello Adam, it has been a while, let me try and answer here.

Using an `<iframe>` is very error prone and would make Discourse very hard to use and full of bugs that would be difficult to track down. It also tends to “window” into Discourse which makes things like scrolling through large topics break. Basically, iframes sandboxes a lot of Discourse’s features.

A good route to take if you were considering using an iframe would be to add a header to your forum that matches the rest of your site/app/portal including navigation links. When a user clicks into the forum they will see a similar navigation but would be on a different URL hosted elsewhere. When they click on a non-forum link in the header they’d be back in the site/app/portal.

I hope this helps.

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