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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[b]whisperstom:[/b] You shouldn't attach the events on the iframe itself but on/in its own document, body, ... just like any page. If the location of the iframe is on the same domain as that of the main window, it's possible to attach an onload event on the iframe via JavaScript. Otherwise it's not possible for security reasons. Whatever, for the iframe, the main window IS its [i]parent[/i] so you the function called onload in the iframe can do things on its [i]parent[/i]. For example, the source code of the page in the iframe could look like :[code]<script type="text/javascript"> function doSomethingToParentWindow() { parent.document.body.style.backgroundColor = "pink" } </script> <body onload="doSomethingToParentWindow()" >...[/code]Like I just said in [22505], you must use the [url=http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/window.html]window[/url] object and its properties like [i]parent[/i], [i]top[/i], [i]frames[/i], ... Hope that helps, [url=http://www.p01.org/] [img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_love.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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