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I want to capture a click on a link within an iframe in a shiny app. And i want to know which link was clicked.
Outside shiny this works fine. I added a fully reproducible example for a related question:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/46093537/3502164
(It has to run on a (local) server, e.g. xaamp).
My attempt:
1) The app to be saved in Path/To/App.
2) In the www folder store the html file that should be displayed within iframe.
fileWithLink.html
<html>
<body>
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/">SOreadytohelp</a>
</body>
</html>
3) App has to be started with runApp("Path/To/App", launch.browser = TRUE)
(So that a local server is started).
library(shiny)
library(shinyjs)
ui <- fluidPage(
useShinyjs(),
htmlOutput("filecontainer")
)
server <- function(input, output, session){
session$onFlushed(once = T, function(){
runjs("
console.log('I arrive here')
$('#filecontainer').load(function(){
console.log('But not here')
var iframe = $('#filecontainer').contents();
iframe.find('#a').click(function(){
alert('I want to arrive here');
});
});
")
})
output$filecontainer <- renderUI({
tags$iframe(src = "fileWithLink.html", height = 600, width = 1200)
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
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The iframe is enclosed in a div with relevant id ($('#filecontainer iframe')). There is a typo calling the anchor tags. I changed destination to avoid cross scripting issues:
library(shiny)
library(shinyjs)
ui <- fluidPage(
useShinyjs(),
htmlOutput("filecontainer")
)
server <- function(input, output, session){
session$onFlushed(once = T, function(){
runjs("
console.log('I arrive here')
$('#filecontainer iframe').load(function(){
console.log('But not here')
var iframe = $('#filecontainer iframe').contents();
iframe.find('a').click(function(){
console.log('am i here')
alert('I want to arrive here');
});
});
")
})
output$filecontainer <- renderUI({
tags$iframe(src = "fileWithLink.html", height = 600, width = 1200)
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
fileWithLink.html
<html>
<body>
<a href="anotherpage.html">SOreadytohelp</a>
</body>
</html>
anotherpage.html
<html>
<body>
Another page
</body>
</html>
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