[thelist] jquery and iFrame loading complete

[Scott Brady]

Yeah, the more I look into it, this may be the best option.

It's not crucial for us (kind of a nice-to-have user-friendly feature), so
I'll add it to our To-Do list.

Thanks!

Scott

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, kasimir-k <kasimir.k.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott Brady scribeva in 2010-06-03 17:46:
>
>  I have an iFrame that does some processing that doesn't generate any HTML
>> output.  It processes a data export and then delivers that file to the
>> user.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is run some JS processing in the parent document once
>> the processing is done (I can't really add any javascript inside the
>> iframe,
>> because it's not loading HTML.).  I thought I could attach a function
>> using
>> .ready(), but that seems to fire immediately, even if the processing isn't
>> done yet.  I tried adding an onload in the iframe tag directly, but that
>> doesn't seem to fire in this case (if the iframe generates HTML output, it
>> does).
>>
>>  ...
>
>> I tried changing the .ready() to a .load() but it doesn't fire at all (nor
>>
>> does the inline onload when the processing runs).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> I think that iframes fire load event when the document they contain has
> completed loading. But when there is no document, there is no load event.
>
> How about:
> - process output
> - when ready
>  - save output
>  - send javascript which
>    - notifies parent document
>    - loads the saved file in the iframe
>
> .k
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