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kfiroo
kfiroo

Reputation: 1953

browser back acts on nested iframe before the page itself - is there a way to avoid it?

I have a page with dynamic data loaded by some ajax and lots of javascript.

the page contains a list from which the user can choose and each selected value loads new data to the page.

One of these data items is a url provided to an iframe.

I use jQuery BBQ: Back Button & Query Library to simulate the browser-back behavior.

All works well besides the fact that when i click the back button for the first time the iframe goes back to its previous location and then I need to click back again to make the page go back.

Is there a way to disable the iframe's back behavior?

Upvotes: 44

Views: 30109

Answers (6)

Daphoque
Daphoque

Reputation: 4678

I manage cross domain iframe inside bootstrap modal, the only solution working for me is to put the following code inside the head of the each iframe pages:

    history.pushState(null, null, location.href);
    window.onpopstate = function () {
      history.go(1);
    };

This will not work for everyone as you need to have the control of the iframe content, in addition it break the history chain of the parent window

Upvotes: 0

Georg Patscheider
Georg Patscheider

Reputation: 9463

The accepted answer does not seem to work if you try to set a cross-domain URL for the IFrame. As a workaround, I detached the IFrame from the DOM before setting the src (using jQuery).

// remove IFrame from DOM before setting source, 
// to prevent adding entries to browser history
var newUrl = 'http://www.example.com';
var iFrame = $('#myIFrame');
var iFrameParent = iFrame.parent();

iFrame.remove();
iFrame.attr('src', newUrl);
iFrameParent.append(iFrame);

Upvotes: 8

Igor G.
Igor G.

Reputation: 7009

Basically you need to prevent the addition of new history entries in the iframe, history.replaceState introduced in HTML5 would work in most cases.

history.pushState(state, title, url);

Upvotes: 0

Mateen Kadwaikar
Mateen Kadwaikar

Reputation: 403

I suggest you create a hyperlink within your iframe. call it 'Back' and put a href as javascript:history.back(-1)That's the best you can do I think.

Upvotes: 1

kfiroo
kfiroo

Reputation: 1953

I've found the answer to my problem guess it could be useful for others out there.

The problem was with the way i assigned new URLs to my Iframe, i used Jquery so it looked something like that: 

$('#myIFrame').attr('src',newUrl);

When assigning the URL in that manner it adds a new entry to the browser's list of visited URLs to go back to.
That wasn't the desired behavior, so after some googling i found that you can assign a new URL to an Iframe object without adding it to the 'back-list', it looks like that: 

var frame = $('#myIFrame')[0];  
frame.contentWindow.location.replace(newUrl);

This way my back button behave exactly as expected.

btw, i got my answer from here.

Hope this was helpful to you as it was to me.

Upvotes: 80

jumpin 88
jumpin 88

Reputation: 7

No, this is entirely up to the browser.

Upvotes: -5

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