They are completely different elements. An iframe will load another window inside with the other page, it's like opening a new page in it's own little box. A DIV is an element like any other, they behave very differently.
And If you're talking about jQuery's load() function, you can't use it with an iframe. http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_iframe.asp On Jan 21, 2:11 am, salbahis <caser...@gmail.com> wrote: > what's the difference between using a <div> instead of <iframe> to > load an externat page?, i've been using this it seems working good but > what are the disadvantage in using <div> instead of <iframe> > > tnxs.. > Jan