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Have iframe break out of parent

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ZendDeveloper

ZendDeveloper

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Jan 3, 2009
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Hi,

I have a page that has an iframe that does some processing. When this has finished I need to have the parent close and for the page within the iframe to be the only one displayed.

The iframe does some credit card processing and redirects to a success page and it is this that I need to display outside of any iframes.

Is this possible, and if so how might I go about doing it.

I did think I could get the parent to redirect to the success page but this is not possible with the application I am using so I thought that if I could get the iframe to break out of the parent window without any refreshing of content this would solve it.

Thanks
 
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do you have a way to detect that the IFrame has finished its job ? do you have control over the source code of the HTML page that the application in the IFrame uses for the page in question ?

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006
 
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do you have a way to detect that the IFrame has finished its job ? do you have control over the source code of the HTML page that the application in the IFrame uses for the page in question ?

see for some similar examples.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006
 
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Hi Greg,

When the iframe has doen it's job it returns to a specified url. I always know where this is so no problem there.

The actual main processing that goes on in the iframe is off site (a payment gateway) so I have no control over what is there until it posts back a response.
 
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on that page that is loaded (the specific url) redirect the parent url to the page you want...
Code: 
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function goTo() {
parent.document.location = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://mylocation.com/mysubdir/mypage.html"[/URL]
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="goTo();">

</body>
</html>




TIP: trying googling the answer before posting, you'll find that more times than not someone else somewhere has had the same request and posted an answer online.
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I have recently been semi-converted to ensuring all my code (well most of it) works in both javascript and non-javascript enabled browsers
 
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vicvirk your idea is exactly where I was going with it, but as the IFrame'd page is not a page he controls I doubt that he would be able to add the code you suggest into it.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006
 
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Thanks greg and vicvirk,

Yes unfortunately Greg has it right. I can't control what is sent back to me so this won't work unfortunately.
 
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