I have an IFrame in a page and IFrame has some JavaScript. At run time JavaScript in IFrame gives exception which i want to catch on parent window. How to do that?
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var frm123 = document.getElementById("frm123");
frm123.contentWindow.onerror = function() {
alert('error caught');
}
function loadData() {
var oRTE = document.getElementById("frm123").contentWindow.document;
oRTE.open();
oRTE.write(txt123.value);
oRTE.close();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="loadData();" value="load">
<input type="text" id="txt123">
<iframe id = "frm123" >
</body>
</html>
The only way is if the frame is on the same domain, in which case you can do, from parent:
There may be few possible causes for
.onError()
function not to work it may be because of cross domain URL's for this you should implement a check before actulally laoding theiFrame
and for that useThis will not work cross domain, the status code is 0 in those cases.
One more thing to check is
.onError()
handler please check from below sample if it matches your conditionsHow can I handle errors in loading an iframe?
There are many other options or tweaks to handle this kind of errors :
if (frameDoc.title == 'title of page after expection occur')
will also do the work using on
.onLoad()
event of iFrame.The answer depends on whether or not you have control of the iframe code, and whether or not it is the same domain.
If same domain then you can do the following to set the error handling function from the wrapping document:
make sure you wait for the iframe to finish loading before setting the error handler.
If it's not the same domain but you have control of the iframe content (both domains are under your control), you can communicate with the outer frame by using a cross domain communication framework (google it or build it yourself), i.e. catch the error in the iframe by setting the onerror handler from within the iframe and send it through the framework to the outer document.
If it's not the same domain and you don't have control of the iframe, there's no way for the outer document to know what's going on inside it because of security constraints.