Because of the widget format I'm working with I have a page which has multiple iframes embedded within iframes. I won't paste the code as it's vast and unwieldy but it is essentially just this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<iframe>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<iframe>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<iframe>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
blah
</body>
</html>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>
However, there may be more - or less - iframes dependent upon the page and template I use.
I'm trying to therefore get the ID of all of the iframes in this page, from within the most-embedded iframe.
Is this possible with jQuery? I've tried a few snippets of code but had no luck:
$('iframe', window.parent.document).each(function() {
console.log($(this).attr("id"));
});
$('iframe', parent.document).each(function() {
console.log($(this).attr("id"));
});
$('iframe').each(function() {
console.log($(this).attr("id"));
});
The output of these is a single ID string - and unfortunately it's not the iframe I'm looking to control.
Thanks in advance,
EDITED
This returns an iframe
element which has the wanted id
, and null
, if the wanted id
is not found.
function searchIds(wantedId) {
var idArray = [], n,
search = function (iframes) {
var n;
for (n = 0; n < iframes.length; n++) {
if (iframes[n].frames.length > 0) {
search(iframes[n].frames);
}
idArray.push(iframes[n].frameElement.id);
idArray.push(iframes[n].frameElement);
}
};
search(window.top.frames);
for (n = 0; n < idArray.length; n += 2) {
if (idArray[n] === wantedId) {
return idArray[n + 1];
}
}
return null;
}
Notice, that searchIds()
can't be run before onload
of the main window has been fired.
I do not believe you can reference the iframe's children directly. You will need to recursively search each iframe using it's .contents()
call.
As far as I know, this will only work as long as the same-origin policy is not violated (i.e. the iframes must point to the same domain).
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