iframe onload event

[ToddWW]

I have an onload event in an iframe element and I'm preloading with about:blank. The onload event fires in both IE and Firefox when the parent document loads. When I use javascript to change the src of the iframe to a PDF document, the onload event fires in Firefox but not IE8. When I load the iframe with an HTML doc, the onload event fires in both browsers.

I have an application that I am loading PDF docs into an iframe. I need to know when the PDF doc is loaded. It works in Firefox, not IE8.

var v1 = document.getElementById("viewframe"); //This is the iframe element
v1.src = "something.pdf"

The loading works great, just not the onload event in IE8.

ToddWW

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Have you considered embedding JavaScript inside the PDFs to report to the parent frame that they are loaded?

I don't know with 100% certainty that this will be possible, but I do know that you can put JavaScript inside PDFs to be executed by PDF readers that allow and understand such things.

Dan



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