How to Add CSS Styles to an Embedded Google Calendar
If you’ve tried embedding a Google Calendar and styling it with custom CSS, you’ve probably noticed that Google prevents your styles from being applied correctly. Since Google Calendar doesn’t provide many customization options, you’re often left with an embedded calendar that doesn’t match your site’s theme. Even worse, Google Calendar embeds aren’t mobile-responsive, so your calendar may be unusable on mobile phones. Fortunately, using this simple process, it’s possible to embed a fully customized, CSS-compatible, mobile-responsive Google calendar into any website.
Why Do Google Calendar Embeds Block CSS?
When you embed a Google Calendar onto your website, Google uses an iframe HTML element to load the calendar’s contents onto your page. Essentially, the iframe element creates a rectangular wrapper within your website and then loads a separate web page from calendar.google.com into it.
Since the browser loads the contents of the iframe as an entirely different website, none of the CSS from your site will apply. The iframe acts like a wall that CSS can’t pass through, and the browser won’t allow you to style anything within it. More technically, the browser will implement the same-origin policy which prevents CSS styles of one website from affecting a different website.
Example:If you’re curious, you can actually open Google Calendar’s web pages (the ones that would normally be loaded into iframes) as normal browser tabs. Click here to try it.
How to Embed a Google Calendar with Custom CSS
Styled Calendar makes it easy to add custom CSS to an embedded Google Calendar. We’ll sync your calendar’s events in just one click, then you’ll be able to use our CSS editor for limitless control. Once you’ve customized your calendar, you’ll embed it into your site with an HTML snippet (just like you would with a traditional Google Calendar embed).
Watch Styled Calendar’s CSS Editor In Action
The video below demonstrates how Styled Calendar can be used add custom CSS to an embedded Google calendar.
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