Embedding external domains – Alternatives to iframes?

[moshen]

Hi,
Greetings to all and my advanced apologies if this is been addressed elsewhere, if so please just point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Objective:
A way to have our suppliers website open in tab whilst still retaining our own header (see example below).

The Problem:
We currently do this through the "Adv iFrame Pro" plugin. However due to the security issues of iframes some of the newer website builds of our suppliers websites are no longer supporting this method. I imagine this will spread to more suppliers over time.

Example of what is currently done using an iframe on our website:
http://houseofuniforms.com.au/uniforms-clothing/online-uniform-catalogues/catalogue-anvil/

Our various supplier catalogues that require this:
http://houseofuniforms.com.au/uniforms-clothing/online-uniform-catalogues/

Why we wish to do this:
Our business is selling clothing (uniforms) and branding it (embroidery & screen printing) for other businesses. As part of the selling process we guide or direct our customers to browse through the catalogues of the different clothing brands so that they can find products they like and then move on from there.

We can of course simply link out to our Suppliers websites to just open in their own tab but customers being customers often get confused when we have done this in the past. Especially as some of the suppliers have contact us pages on their site. While the suppliers don't sell direct to public they have no idea where the customer has come from and are just as likely to refer them to one of competitors as to us. Hence the iframe approach as it keeps the supplier catalogue within the context of our business.

My background:
I am about to commence building a new site for our business using Gensis/Dynamik/Builder Beaver. The previous version I did (as seen at the above links) a few years ago used the Avada theme.
My skill level basically consists of knowing/learning just enough to get the job done each website build (over the years having gone from Flash to Dremweaver to WordPress).

Thanks.

http://houseofuniforms.com.au/uniforms-clothing/online-uniform-catalogues/

[Victor Font]

I don't think there is an HTML alternative to the iframe tag at present. You may be able to do something with jQuery though with something like this.

$(document).ready(function (){
    $('#divId').load(url of target website what you must load);     
});

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