Get the name/id of an iframe onClick

Hi,

I have an interesting problem that i need to solve, i have been developing a simple rich text editor which can go multiple times on the same page. What i need to do is make it so that when you click anywhere on the IFRAME it will return the id of the iframe. I have the first part done, so i can click on the iframe and call a function but how would i go about using a function to get the id of the IFRAME.

Thanks for your assistance,
Steve

Oct 1 '07 #1

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hi ...

please post the (simplified) code that relates to your problem ... how did you try to retrieve the id?

kind regards

Oct 1 '07 #2

deuce789

To go into abit more detail i am assigning an event handler like so

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 document.getElementById(i).contentWindow.document.addEventListener("click", function() { alert(i) }, true);
 
 

This event handler is assigned within a loop, with i being the iterating number.

But when this event handler is actually called when someone clicks on the iframe, i will always contain the last item in the loop. I have 3 editors and i want the function to return what i is equal to at that point in the loop, but instead it will always return 3, instead of 1 or 2.

I cant use things like this, because that is only relevant to items within the iframe, not the iframe itself.

I hope that makes abit more sense.

Thanks
Steve

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hi ...

try using:

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node.addEventListener('click', function(e) { alert(e.target.id) }, true);

note: this works with mozilla, ff, safari, opera - ie uses e.srcElement for target ... so you have to adapt it for that ...

kind regards

Oct 1 '07 #4

deuce789

Hi,

I tried this out and it appears to return the parent node within the editable iframe content, instead of the iframe itself.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Steve

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hmmm ...

as far as i can see you do the following another way:

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 var node = document.getElementById('test_id1');
 
node.contentDocument.addEventListener('click', function() { alert(i) }, true);

so the handler is assigned to the contentDocument ... i think your code is equivalent to this shorter one here. try:

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 node.contentDocument.addEventListener('click', function() { alert(node.id) }, true);
 

kind regards

Oct 1 '07 #6

deuce789

Hi,

I just gave this a shot, but unfortunately it yields the same results as just doing alert(i).

The last item in the loop is used, in this case 3. So regardless of which textarea i click on the result returned is always 3.

Thanks,
Steve

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hi ...

its a little bit tricky with that anonymous functions ... play with the following working example, that stores the variable in each of the applied handler functions:

[HTML]
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

function add_events() {
var click_handler = function(node) {
return function() { alert(node.id) };
};

for (var i = 1; i < 4; i++) {
var node = document.getElementById(i);

node.addEventListener('click', click_handler(node), true);
}
}

</script>
</head>

<body onload="add_events();">
<p id="1" name="test_name">test</p>
<p id="2" name="test_name">test</p>
<p id="3" name="test_name">test</p>
</body>

</html>
[/HTML]
you may adapt it to your needs ...

kind regards

Oct 1 '07 #8

deuce789

thank you for your help, saved me days figuring it out, all works perfectly now :)

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ha ;) ... it works ;)) ... glad that it would be of help to you ... post back to the forum anytime you have more questions ...

kind regards

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