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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Dynamic Gist Embedding</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<label for="gistList">Gists</label>
<select id="gistList">
<option value="">Select a Gist</option>
<option value="906758">Get a Twitter user's avatar using PHP</option>
<option value="785770">How to PHP regex match an HTML document's title</option>
<option value="785766">How to PHP regex match an HTML document's meta description</option>
</select>
</p>
<div id="gistZone"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("gistList").onchange = function(e) {
if (e.target.value) {
// Create an iframe, append it to this document where specified
var gistFrame = document.createElement("iframe");
gistFrame.setAttribute("width", "100%");
gistFrame.id = "gistFrame";
var zone = document.getElementById("gistZone");
zone.innerHTML = "";
zone.appendChild(gistFrame);
// Create the iframe's document
var gistFrameHTML = '<html><body onload="parent.adjustIframeSize(document.body.scrollHeight)"><scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" src="https://gist.github.com/' + e.target.value + '.js"></sc'+'ript></body></html>';
// Set iframe's document with a trigger for this document to adjust the height
var gistFrameDoc = gistFrame.document;
if (gistFrame.contentDocument) {
gistFrameDoc = gistFrame.contentDocument;
} else if (gistFrame.contentWindow) {
gistFrameDoc = gistFrame.contentWindow.document;
}
gistFrameDoc.open();
gistFrameDoc.writeln(gistFrameHTML);
gistFrameDoc.close();
console.log("iframe added");
}
}
function adjustIframeSize(newHeight) {
var i = document.getElementById("gistFrame");
i.style.height = parseInt(newHeight) + "px";
console.log("size adjusted", newHeight);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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