The jQuery function, which you more commonly call with $, takes a second argument called context, which is “which DOM element of jQuery object should I do the search in”. Most of the time you omit this argument, so the context defaults to the current HTML document. When your code is executing in the iframe, … Read more
If you have control over the iframe page (and the pages are on the same domain name), a strategy could be as follows: In the parent document, initialize a variable var iFrameLoaded = false; When the iframe document is loaded, set this variable in the parent to true calling from the iframe document a parent’s … Read more
Jakob Nielsen wrote a 1996 column that criticized frames. Some key points: Frames prevent users from properly bookmarking pages. When a bookmarked frameset page is loaded, users’ previous mouse clicks inside the frames do not matter. Only the outer URL is saved, and users have to navigate to where they were manually. Frames present challenges … Read more
I had a similar issue, where I was trying to display content from our own site in an iframe (as a lightbox-style dialog with Colorbox), and where we had an server-wide “X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN” header on the source server preventing it from loading on our test server. This doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere, but if … Read more