Add HTML on an injected iframe - javascript

I'm currently developing a Toolbar from Google Chrome. Basically it's a toolbar that i'm injecting in every web pages by using a Content-Script. Technically the toolbar is materializd by a iframe that include all the components like button, dropMenu,... Here is the script you make this :
// Take down the webPage
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.marginTop = '39px';
var body = $('body'),
toolbarURL = chrome.extension.getURL("yourtoolbar.html"),
iframe = $('<iframe id="YourToolbarFrame" scrolling="no" src="'+toolbarURL+'">');
// Insertion
body.append(iframe);
// Effect
$("#YourToolbarFrame").hide().fadeIn(800);
But right now i'm trying to add some component on this iframe for example a button but it didn't work...
var yt = $("#YourToolbarFrame");
var newButton = $('<input type="image" src="images/pop.ico" name="InstantMessage" width="23" height="23">');
yt.append(newButton);
The body of the iframe look like this :
<body>
<div class="default">
// COMPONENTS
</div>
</body>
Hope someone can provide me some help ! :)

You have to wait until the iframe loaded. E.g.:
iframe.load(function() {
var newButton = ...;
$(this).contents().find('body').append(newButton);
}).appendTo('body');
Not sure how Chrome handles the same-origin policy for content scripts though.

Since you're using jQuery, you could try using
$('#YourToolbarFrame').contents().find('body').append(newButton);
Or if you don't want to append to the body directly, use any other element in the find() statement.

Related

Change Twitter Widget appearance on-the-fly

I have the following code in my document:
<a class="twitter-widget" href="url" data-widget-id="138843679974442730">Twitter Timeline</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
data-widget-id is connected to one style. Right now if there is a theme change on the website (I replace all responsible stylesheets and images) everything changes but the Twitter widget.
Since the widget itself is an iframe, I can't change any stylesheets attached to it.
Is there an easy way to change the style of the widget without reloading it (deleting the tag, creating the tag, running js)?
You can style elements in the Twitter widget iframe using JavaScript.
First, you need the active document in the iframe's nested browsing context:
var doc = document.getElementById("twitter-widget-0").contentDocument;
Then, you can apply styles (e.g.):
doc.querySelector(".timeline-header").style["background-color"] = "black";
doc.querySelector(".timeline-header a").style["color"] = "white";
Example: http://codepen.io/smockle/pen/IJHnj
There is no straight forward way of doing this, so I've decided to bring in another dependency that will be delaying the onload event..
<script type="text/javascript" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
And here is the code that did the job:
var twitterBox = document.getElementsByClassName("twitterBox");
if (!twitterBox || twitterBox.length == 0) { return true; }
var twitterTimeline = document.createElement('a');
twitterTimeline.className = 'twitter-timeline';
twitterTimeline.href = 'url';
twitterTimeline.innerHTML = 'Twitter Timeline';
twitterTimeline.setAttribute('data-widget-id', '388742673974046720');
twitterBox[0].removeAttribute('data-twttr-id');
twitterBox[0].innerHTML = '';
twitterBox[0].appendChild(twitterTimeline);
twttr.widgets.load();

How to move an iFrame in the DOM without losing its state?

Take a look at this simple HTML:
<div id="wrap1">
<iframe id="iframe1"></iframe>
</div>
<div id="warp2">
<iframe id="iframe2"></iframe>
</div>
Let's say I wanted to move the wraps so that the #wrap2 would be before the #wrap1. The iframes are polluted by JavaScript. I am aware of jQuery's .insertAfter() and .insertBefore(). However, when I use those, the iFrame loses all of its HTML, and JavaScript variables and events.
Lets say the following was the iFrame's HTML:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// The variable below would change on click
// This represents changes on variables after the code is loaded
// These changes should remain after the iFrame is moved
variableThatChanges = false;
$(function(){
$("body").click(function(){
variableThatChanges = true;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id='anything'>Illustrative Example</div>
</body>
</html>
In the above code, the variable variableThatChanges would...change if the user clicked on the body. This variable, and the click event, should remain after the iFrame is moved (along with any other variables/events that have been started)
My question is the following: with JavaScript (with or without jQuery), how can I move the wrap nodes in the DOM (and their iframe childs) so that the iFrame's window stays the same, and the iFrame's events/variables/etc stay the same?
It isn't possible to move an iframe from one place in the dom to another without it reloading.
Here is an example to show that even using native JavaScript the iFrames still reload:
http://jsfiddle.net/pZ23B/
var wrap1 = document.getElementById('wrap1');
var wrap2 = document.getElementById('wrap2');
setTimeout(function(){
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(wrap1);
},10000);
This answer is related to the bounty by #djechlin
A lot of search on the w3/dom specs and didn't find anything final that specifically says that iframe should be reloaded while moving in the DOM tree, however I did find lots of references and comments in the webkit's trac/bugzilla/microsoft regarding different behavior changes over the years.
I hope someone will find anything specific regarding this issue, but for now here are my findings:
According to Ryosuke Niwa - "That's the expected behavior".
There was a "magic iframe" (webkit, 2010), but it was removed in 2012.
According to MS - "iframe resources are freed when removed from the DOM". When you appendChild(node) of existing node - that node is first removed from the dom.
Interesting thing here - IE<=8 didn't reload the iframe - this behavior is (somewhat) new (since IE>=9).
According to Hallvord R. M. Steen comment, this is a quote from the iframe specs
When an iframe element is inserted into a document that has a browsing context, the user agent must create a new browsing context, set the element's nested browsing context to the newly-created browsing context, and then process the iframe attributes for the "first time".
This is the most close thing I found in the specs, however it's still require some interpretation (since when we move the iframe element in the DOM we don't really do a full remove, even if the browsers uses the node.removeChild method).
Whenever an iframe is appended and has a src attribute applied it fires a load action similarly to when creating an Image tag via JS. So when you remove and then append them they are completely new entities and they refresh. Its kind of how window.location = window.location will reload a page.
The only way I know to reposition iframes is via CSS. Here is an example I put together showing one way to handle this with flex-box:
https://jsfiddle.net/3g73sz3k/15/
The basic idea is to create a flex-box wrapper and then define an specific order for the iframes using the order attribute on each iframe wrapper.
<style>
.container{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
</style>
<div class="container">
<div id="wrap1" style="order: 0" class="iframe-wrapper">
<iframe id="iframe1" src="https://google.com"></iframe>
</div>
<div id="warp2" style="order: 1" class="iframe-wrapper">
<iframe id="iframe2" src="https://bing.com"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
As you can see in the JS fiddle these order styles are inline to simplify the flip button so rotate the iframes.
I sourced the solution from this StackOverflow question: Swap DIV position with CSS only
Hope that helps.
If you have created the iFrame on the page and simply need to move it's position later try this approach:
Append the iFrame to the body and use a high z-index and top,left,width,height to put the iFrame where you want.
Even CSS zoom works on the body without reloading which is awesome!
I maintain two states for my "widget" and it is either injected in place in the DOM or to the body using this method.
This is useful when other content or libraries will squish or squash your iFrame.
BOOM!
Unfortunately, the parentNode property of an HTML DOM element is read-only. You can adjust the positions of the iframes, of course, but you can't change their location in the DOM and preserve their states.
See this jsfiddle I created that provides a good test bed. http://jsfiddle.net/RpHTj/1/
Click on the box to toggle the value. Click on the "move" to run the javascript.
This question is pretty old... but I did find a way to move an iframe without it reloading. CSS only. I have multiple iframes with camera streams, I dont like when they reload when i swap them. So i used a combination of float, position:absolute, and some dummy blocks to move them around without reloading them and having the desired layout on demand (resizing and all).
If you are using the iframe to access pages you control, you could create some javascript to allow your parent to communicate with the iframe via postMessage
From there, you could build login inside the iframe to record state changes, and before moving dom, request that as a json object.
Once moved, the iframe will reload, you can pass the state data into the iframe and the iframe listening can parse the data back into the previous state.
PaulSCoder has the right solution. Never manipulate the DOM for this purpose. The classic approach for this is to have a relative position and "flip" the positions in the click event. It's only not wise to put the click event on the body, because it bubbles from other elements too.
$("body").click(function () {
var frame1Height = $(frame1).outerHeight(true);
var frame2Height = $(frame2).outerHeight(true);
var pos = $(frame1).css("top");
if (pos === "0px") {
$(frame1).css("top", frame2Height);
$(frame2).css("top", -frame1Height);
} else {
$(frame1).css("top", 0);
$(frame2).css("top", 0);
}
});
If you only have content that is not cross-domain you could save and restore the HTML:
var htmlContent = $(frame).contents().find("html").children();
// do something
$(frame).contents().find("html").html(htmlContent);
The advantage of the first method is, that the frame keeps on doing what it was doing. With the second method, the frame gets reloaded and starts it's code again.
At least in some circumstances a shadow dom with slotting might be an option.
<template>
<style>div {outline:1px solid black; height:45px}</style>
<div><slot name="a" /></div>
<div><slot name="b" /></div>
</template>
<div id="shadowhost">
<iframe src="data:text/html,<button onclick='this.innerText+=`!`'>!</button>"
slot="a" height=40px ></iframe>
</div>
<button onclick="ifr.slot= (ifr.slot=='a') ? 'b' : 'a';">swap</button>
<script>
document.querySelector('#shadowhost').attachShadow({mode: 'open'}).appendChild(
document.querySelector('template').content
);
ifr=document.querySelector('iframe');
</script>
In response to the bounty #djechlin placed on this question, I have forked the jsfiddle posted by #matt-h and have come to the conclusion that this is still not possible.
http://jsfiddle.net/gr3wo9u6/
//this does not work, the frames reload when appended back to the DOM
function swapFrames() {
var w1 = document.getElementById('wrap1');
var w2 = document.getElementById('wrap2');
var f1 = w1.querySelector('iframe');
var f2 = w2.querySelector('iframe');
w1.removeChild(f1);
w2.removeChild(f2);
w1.appendChild(f2);
w2.appendChild(f1);
//f1.parentNode = w2;
//f2.parentNode = w1;
//alert(f1.parentNode.id);
}

Reload iframe src / location with new url not working in Safari

I have a page that loads with initially just a form within an iframe, something like this:
<iframe id="oIframe" ...src='somePage>'
<form ... />
</iframe>
When you click a button in the form, some javascript is invoked that builds a url and then I want to do the following:
frame.src = 'somePage?listId=1';
This works in IE to "reload" the frame with the new contents.
However, in Safari this does not work.
I have jQuery available, but I don't want to replace the existing iframe because there are events attached to it. I also can not modify the id of the iframe because it is referenced throughout the application.
I have seen some similar issues but no solutions that seem to work well for my exact issue.
Any assistance anyone can provide would be great!
Some browsers don't use "src" when calling the javascript object directly from the javascript hierarchy and others use "location" or "href" instead of "src" to change the url . You should try these two methods to update your iframe with a new url.
To prevent browser cache add a pseudo-random string like a number and timestamp to the url to prevent caching. For example add "new Date().getTime()" to your url.
Some calling examples:
document.getElementById(iframeId).src = url;
or
window.frames[iframeName].location = url;
I recommend the first option using document.getElementById
Also you can force the iframe to reload a page using
document.getElementById(iframeId).reload(true);
So the answer is very simple:
1. put a <div id="container"> </div> on your page
2. when reload needed use following jQuery:
$("#container").empty();
$("#container").append("<iframe src='" + url + "' />");
and that's it.
Of course there is more elegant way of creating DOM with jQuery but this gives the idea of "refreshing" iframe.
Works in FF18, CH24, IE9, O12 (well it's jQuery so it will work almost always :)
I found a better solution (albeit not paticularly eloquent) for this using jQuery.ajax:
jQuery.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: "/somePage?someparms",
success: function() {
frameObj.src = "/somePage?someparms";
}
});
This forces the DOM to be read within the frame object, and reloads it once the server is ready to respond.
Try this
form.setAttribute('src', 'somePage?listId=1');
Well, I was able to find what appears to be a feasible solution -- it's a work in progress, but this is basically what I ended up doing:
var myFrame = document.getElementById('frame'); // get frame
myFrame.src = url; // set src attribute of original frame
var originalId = myFrame.id; // retain the original id of the frame
var newFrameId = myFrame.id + new Date().getTime(); // create a new id
var newFrame = "<iframe id=\"" + newFrameId + "\"/>"; // iframe string w/ new id
myFrameParent = myFrame.parentElement; // find parent of original iframe
myFrameParent.innerHTML = newFrame; // update innerHTML of parent
document.getElementById(newFrameId).id = originalId; // change id back
I ran into this issue using React, passing the key as props.src solved it
const KeyedIframe = ({children, ...props}) => <iframe key={props.src} { ...props}>
{children}
</iframe>

Change iframe source from another iframe

Ok, I have 2 iframes inside a parent page (for whatever reason).
I have a navigation menu on parent page, which changes the source of iframe #1...
iFrame #1's job, is to display ANOTHER navigation menu... Like a subnavigation menu...
Now, how can I upon clicking an li inside iFrame #1, change the source of iframe #2? They're both on the same parent page...
Aside from failing miserably, I also get a warning from Chrome's Dev tools -
Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL file:///C:/website/index.html from frame with URL file:///C:/website/news/navigator.html. Domains, protocols and ports must match.
Here's some code to make things slightly clearer:
The HTML
<!-- HTML for the parent page itself -->
<iframe id="frameone" src=""></iframe>
<iframe id="frametwo" src=""></iframe>
<button onclick="onenav('test.html')">Change 1st frame</button>
<!-- The following is the HTML that is loaded inside "frameone" -->
<button onclick="twonav('test2.html')">Change 2nd frame</button>
// Javascript
var one = document.getElementById('frameone');
var two = document.getElementById('frametwo');
function onenav(x){
one.src = x;
}
function twonav(y){
two.src = y;
}
To me, this makes sense, since this is all being executed on the parent page... On loading, I query the dev tools and I can see that both, 'one' and 'two' have frame elements... The first button works, the second one, doesn't...
Works for me when using parent.twonav
DEMO
var links = [
'javascript:\'<button onclick="parent.twonav(1)">Change 2nd frame</button>\'',
'javascript:\'Hello\''
];
var one, two;
window.onload=function() {
one = document.getElementById('frameone');
two = document.getElementById('frametwo');
}
function onenav(idx) {
one.src=links[idx];
}
function twonav(idx) {
two.src=links[idx];
}
How did you try to change the iframe source?
parent.document.getElementById('2').src = "the new url";
Did you try something like this? I assumed from your message that the id of the 2nd iframe is 2.

get iframe page title from javascript using jquery

How to get iframe src page title and then set main page title
If you want to do it using jQuery:
var title = $("#frame_id").contents().find("title").html();
$(document).find("title").html(title);
You can do it only when pages are on the same domain, otherwise it's useless.
Granting that iframes src and the parent document src are the same domain:
Parent document:
<html>
<head><title>Parent</title>
<body>
<iframe id="f" src="someurl.html"></iframe>
<script>
//if the parent should set the title, here it is
document.title = document.getElementById('f').contentWindow.document.title;
</script>
</body>
</html>
someurl.html:
<html>
<head><title>Child</title>
<body>
<script>
//if the child wants to set the parent title, here it is
parent.document.title = document.title;
//or top.document.title = document.title;
</script>
</body>
</html>
Unless the webpage is in the iframe is from the same domain as the containing page, it is impossible.
If they do have the same domain, then try the following:
document.title = document.getElementById("iframe").documentElement.title;
One way you can share title and location:
document.write('<iframe src="http://www.yourwebsite.com/home.html?title='+document.title+'&url='+window.location+'" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>');
and then you can read the parameters on home.html page.
This can be done using event listeners on the page. It's not particularly elegant, but the browsers I have tried it with support it (so IE9+, Firefox, Chrome).
In your main site page add the following javascript:
function setPageTitle(event) {
var newPageTitle = event.data
// your code for setting the page title and anything else you're doing
}
addEventListener('message', setPageTitle, false);
In the iFrame, you'll then need to have the following script:
var targetOrigin = "http://your.domain.com"; // needed to let the browser think the message came from your actual domain
parent.postMessage("New page title", targetOrigin); // this will trigger the message listener in the parent window

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