I'm trying to attach an eventlistener to the "click" event of a button on a page in an IFrame. The page in the iframe belongs to the same domain as the parent window.
window.frames["iframe_Id"].document.getElementById("button_id").addEventListener("click",functionToRun,false);
The above sample is not working for me. It could just be a a syntax error in my actual code but I wanted to see if this is the general idea.
Note: I found plenty of examples on adding the click event to the entire Iframe but I'm not sure it works the same for buttons within the Iframe.
Using jQuery:
$("#iframe_Id").contents("#button_id").click(functionToRun);
Or without jQuery:
document.getElementById("iframe_Id").contentWindow.document.getElementById("button_id").addEventListener("click", functionToRun, false);
This will only work if the iframe meets the same origin policy.
window.frames is an array-like object, so its elements can be accessed by indexes only.
You should loop through them, and check their id, e.g.:
var frame; for(i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
frame = frames[i];
if (frame.id === 'iframe_id') {
frame.document
.getElementById("button_id")
.addEventListener("click",functionToRun,false);
}
}
Have you tried executing the event in the "capturing" vs. "bubbling" phase?
document.getElementById("iframe_Id")
.document.addEventListener("click", functionToRun, true);
Note the true
instead of false
as the final parameter.
window.frames["iframe_Id"].contentWindow.document.getElementById("button_id").addEventListener("click",functionToRun,false);
^
The contentWindow property.
From the DOM iframe element, scripts can get access to the window
object of the included HTML page via the contentWindow property.