loading iframe dynamically

[maya]

hello,

how do you load an iframe dynamically? I don't mean url inside iframe,
but iframe itself..

thank you..

[bobzimuta]

maya wrote:

hello,

how do you load an iframe dynamically? I don't mean url inside iframe,
but iframe itself..

thank you..

You need the DOM
http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/default.asp

var iframe = document.createElement( 'IFRAME' );
iframe.with = '300';
iframe.height = '400';
iframe.src = 'http://www.google.com'

document.body.appendChild( iframe );

[maya]

bobzimuta wrote:

maya wrote:

>hello,

how do you load an iframe dynamically? I don't mean url inside iframe,
but iframe itself..

thank you..

You need the DOM
http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/default.asp

var iframe = document.createElement( 'IFRAME' );
iframe.with = '300';
iframe.height = '400';
iframe.src = 'http://www.google.com'

document.body.appendChild( iframe );

thank you!! I knew there had to be a way.....:)
(I had looked in W3C DOM ref.. found iframe obj but no "name" or "id"
property, so wasn't sure how to do it..)

thanks again...

-m

[bobzimuta]

maya wrote:

thank you!! I knew there had to be a way.....:)
(I had looked in W3C DOM ref.. found iframe obj but no "name" or "id"
property, so wasn't sure how to do it..)

thanks again...

-m

The standard attributes (id, src, class, etc.) can be modified (if not
readonly) via foo.bar = moo. If you want to assign special attributes,
use foo.setAttribute( 'name', 'value' );

[Randy Webb]

bobzimuta said the following on 8/11/2006 12:51 AM:

maya wrote:

>thank you!! I knew there had to be a way.....:)
(I had looked in W3C DOM ref.. found iframe obj but no "name" or "id"
property, so wasn't sure how to do it..)

thanks again...

-m

The standard attributes (id, src, class, etc.) can be modified (if not
readonly) via foo.bar = moo. If you want to assign special attributes,
use foo.setAttribute( 'name', 'value' );

What makes you think that? setAttribute is known to be buggy in IE (not
necessarily with IFrames though) so the more you stay away from it - as
habit - the less your chances of running into problems.

foo.name = value;

is better than:

foo.setAttribute('name','value')

--
Randy
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[Richard Cornford]

bobzimuta wrote:

maya wrote:

>thank you!! I knew there had to be a way.....:)
(I had looked in W3C DOM ref.. found iframe obj but no
"name" or "id" property, so wasn't sure how to do it..)

thanks again...

The standard attributes (id, src, class, etc.) can be
modified (if not readonly) via foo.bar = moo. ...

However, the src property as defined by the W3C Level 2 DOM
specification holds the value of the "initial frame contents" of the
IFRAME, so the consequences of assigning values to that that property
are extremely questionable and do not necessarily include any
consequential navigation of the IFRAME away from its current URL.

Once and IFRAME had been created the reliable method of navigating its
contents is to assign values to the - location - priority of its
corresponding window/global object.

Richard.