<iframe> javascript access parent DOM across domains?
Hate to say it but I'm like 99% sure that ain't happening directly because of security.
You can try it out here.
bhh
It is possible.
You were right to mention postMessage in your edits. For those looking, there is a great backwards-compatible, javascript-only way to communicate across domains. Short, easy code as well. Perfect solution? As long as you can request modifications to the parent and the child:
http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/01/15/backwards-compatible-postmessage/
Yes you can.
You can implement window.postMessage to communicate accross iframes and/or windows across domains.
But you need to do it in an asynchronous way.
If you need it synchronously, you need to implement wrappers around those asynchronous methods.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<!--
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<link rel="start" href="http://benalman.com/" title="Home">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/code/php/multi_file.php?m=benalman_css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/mt.js"></script>
-->
<script type="text/javascript">
// What browsers support the window.postMessage call now?
// IE8 does not allow postMessage across windows/tabs
// FF3+, IE8+, Chrome, Safari(5?), Opera10+
function SendMessage()
{
var win = document.getElementById("ifrmChild").contentWindow;
// http://robertnyman.com/2010/03/18/postmessage-in-html5-to-send-messages-between-windows-and-iframes/
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16072902/dom-exception-12-for-window-postmessage
// Specify origin. Should be a domain or a wildcard "*"
if (win == null || !window['postMessage'])
alert("oh crap");
else
win.postMessage("hello", "*");
//alert("lol");
}
function ReceiveMessage(evt) {
var message;
//if (evt.origin !== "http://robertnyman.com")
if (false) {
message = 'You ("' + evt.origin + '") are not worthy';
}
else {
message = 'I got "' + evt.data + '" from "' + evt.origin + '"';
}
var ta = document.getElementById("taRecvMessage");
if (ta == null)
alert(message);
else
document.getElementById("taRecvMessage").innerHTML = message;
//evt.source.postMessage("thanks, got it ;)", event.origin);
} // End Function ReceiveMessage
if (!window['postMessage'])
alert("oh crap");
else {
if (window.addEventListener) {
//alert("standards-compliant");
// For standards-compliant web browsers (ie9+)
window.addEventListener("message", ReceiveMessage, false);
}
else {
//alert("not standards-compliant (ie8)");
window.attachEvent("onmessage", ReceiveMessage);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe id="ifrmChild" src="child.htm" frameborder="0" width="500" height="200" ></iframe>
<br />
<input type="button" value="Test" onclick="SendMessage();" />
</body>
</html>
Child.htm
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<!--
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<link rel="start" href="http://benalman.com/" title="Home">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/code/php/multi_file.php?m=benalman_css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/mt.js"></script>
-->
<script type="text/javascript">
/*
// Opera 9 supports document.postMessage()
// document is wrong
window.addEventListener("message", function (e) {
//document.getElementById("test").textContent = ;
alert(
e.domain + " said: " + e.data
);
}, false);
*/
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.postMessage
// http://ejohn.org/blog/cross-window-messaging/
// http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-postmessage-plugin/
// http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-postmessage/docs/files/jquery-ba-postmessage-js.html
// .data – A string holding the message passed from the other window.
// .domain (origin?) – The domain name of the window that sent the message.
// .uri – The full URI for the window that sent the message.
// .source – A reference to the window object of the window that sent the message.
function ReceiveMessage(evt) {
var message;
//if (evt.origin !== "http://robertnyman.com")
if(false)
{
message = 'You ("' + evt.origin + '") are not worthy';
}
else
{
message = 'I got "' + evt.data + '" from "' + evt.origin + '"';
}
//alert(evt.source.location.href)
var ta = document.getElementById("taRecvMessage");
if(ta == null)
alert(message);
else
document.getElementById("taRecvMessage").innerHTML = message;
// http://javascript.info/tutorial/cross-window-messaging-with-postmessage
//evt.source.postMessage("thanks, got it", evt.origin);
evt.source.postMessage("thanks, got it", "*");
} // End Function ReceiveMessage
if (!window['postMessage'])
alert("oh crap");
else {
if (window.addEventListener) {
//alert("standards-compliant");
// For standards-compliant web browsers (ie9+)
window.addEventListener("message", ReceiveMessage, false);
}
else {
//alert("not standards-compliant (ie8)");
window.attachEvent("onmessage", ReceiveMessage);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body style="background-color: gray;">
<h1>Test</h1>
<textarea id="taRecvMessage" rows="20" cols="20" ></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Here, you would modify the child to send postmessages to parent. e.g. in child.htm, you do
window.parent.postMessage("alert(document.location.href); document.location.href = 'http://www.google.com/ncr'", "*");
and in parent, you do (in receiveMessage) eval(evt.data);
Not that using eval is insecure, so you would instead pass an enum, and call the corresponding function that you need to put on the parent page.