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Chris Stahl
Chris Stahl

Reputation: 1812

How do you scroll an iframe from within using jquery?

I'm using a shadowbox which generates an iframe to display product details on a page. Because the details page can be pretty long, the client would like a "More" button that scrolls the page down (apparently the scrollbar on the right of the iframe isn't enough).

Here's the code that I've tried in order to get the iframe to scroll:

$(document).ready(function()
{
$(".moreButton img").click(function() {
    scrollbottom();
});
});

function scrollbottom() {
var x = 250; // this number is a temporary placeholder
var t = 500;
$("iframe").animate({ scrollTop: x }, t);
}

I've also tried using body instead of iframe but to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 12864

Answers (4)

yodann
yodann

Reputation: 355

Create a function in the parent javascript like this:

function scrollToPoint(top) {
    $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: top }, "slow")
}

and call that function within the iframe like this:

window.parent.scrollToPoint(top);

It should work in chrome, not tested in firefox yet

Upvotes: 2

Mathias
Mathias

Reputation: 398

In Chrome I had to specifically select the body element:

$('#my-iframe').contents().find('body').animate({scrollTop:90},500);

Upvotes: 1

Chris Stahl
Chris Stahl

Reputation: 1812

This ended up working:

$('html,body').animate({ scrollTop: x }, t);

Upvotes: 1

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887365

Like this: (Tested)

$("iframe").contents().children().animate({ scrollTop: x }, t);

Upvotes: 3

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