Stopping a iframe from loading a page using javascript

Question

Is there a way in javascript of stopping an iframe in the middle of loading a page? The reason I need to do this is I have a background iframe streaming data from a web server (via a Comet style mechanism) and I need to be able to sever the connection at will.

Any ideas welcome.

Answer 1

For FireFox/Safari/Chrome you can use window.stop():

window.frames[0].stop() 

For IE, you can do the same thing with document.execCommand('Stop'):

window.frames[0].document.execCommand('Stop') 

For a cross-browser solution you could use:

if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') {   window.frames[0].document.execCommand('Stop'); } else {   window.frames[0].stop(); } 

Answer 2

The whole code should be like this, (unclenorton's line was missing a bracket)

if (typeof (window.frames[0].stop) === 'undefined'){     //Internet Explorer code     setTimeout(function() {window.frames[0].document.execCommand('Stop');},1000); }else{     //Other browsers     setTimeout(function() {window.frames[0].stop();},1000); }