I have a web application that creates a graph on another aspx page. Sometimes the graph cannot be created to specification because there is an error in the user specification (such as a string where an integer was expected).
I would like to immediately pop up an alert window telling them that something went wrong when I was trying to render the graph.
The thing is, I don't know how to immediately check to see if I should insert a script for an alert window. Once my code on "chart.aspx"(image URL) is executed, I don't know how to immediately check if anything went wrong from the main page. I know it happened in the code in chart.aspx, but other than not to not render the image or render a different image, I don't know how to tell the user before another postback. I would really like to see if there is any sort or event or stage in the page lifecycle after one of the images is rendered.
If this is not possible, how can I chart.aspx convey an error message to default.aspx if it is simply an image. Maybe some sort of Response.Write(...?)
Thanks again guys.
Maybe you could try monitoring the image's load events and handle onabort and onerror via javascript?
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_image.asp
Image Object Events
Event The event occurs when...
onabort Loading of an image is interrupted
onerror An error occurs when loading an image
onload An image is finished loading
The old school way of doing this would be to render your image tag like below:
<img src="chart.aspx" onerror="alert('Image failed to load because XYZ.');" />
Nowadays, I'd recommend you use jquery, something like this:
<img src="placeholder.gif" class="chart" alt="chart">
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function($) {
var img = $(document.createElement('img'));
img.on('error', function() { alert ('...'); });
img.on('load', function() { $('img.chart').attr('src', img[0].src); });
});
when my application launches in the IE from start page to main page i want to hide the addressbar and the standardbuttons bar of IE through the codebehind and here am using masterpage concept so i have to write the code in master only i think so....can anyone help for this
AFAIK you cannot disable address bar and button in IE from when the application starts unless using some ActiveX, Flash, ... Only if your application opens new window popups you could hide them.
I just found a way... It works atleast in IE 7... Not sure about other browsers...
<html>
<head>
<script>
if (window.name == 'default') {
window.name = 'Hai';
window.open('main.html', '_self'); // Current html file name
}
else if(window.name == '') {
window.name = 'Hai';
window.open('main.html', '_self'); // Current html file name
}
else if(window.name == 'Hai') {
// Use your application startup page here along with the desired options
window.open('newfile.aspx','NEWWINDOWNAME', 'Status=0, location=0');
window.close();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
This window automatically closes itself
</body>
</html>
The complete list of options are available here.
Hope this helps.
Explanation : (AFAIK) Generally when javascript uses window.close method to close the active window, IE will ask for a confirmation from the user. Such confirmation will not be asked when the window is a popup window opened previously by a javascript along with a name.
The above just fakes the same, by opening the same file in the same window but this time with a name. As a result when window.close is executed, IE recognises the current window as a window opened using Javascript and as it also has a name, it just closes the same without confirmation.
Of course, I get a general Javascript alert at the beginning of the load, but since (I presume) you will be using aspx or other types, this problem will not be there.
net website, I would like to add button by which user can view the page in Full Screen mode and switch back to Normal mode. [This is same as happens with F11]
I have seen many javascript code but all of them is opening new window in full screen.
But i would like have same window in Full screen
If it happn then i will put that button in MASTER page.
Please help?
I don't think it is possible to do what you are asking.
The only possible way is using window.open:
<span onclick="window.open('http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html','', 'fullscreen=yes, scrollbars=auto');">Open Full Screen Window</span>
(I'm not sure it's a good idea to force a user to use full screen mode...)
ugly solution but it works
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function max()
{
var obj = new ActiveXObject("Wscript.shell");
obj.SendKeys("{f11}");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="javascript:max()">
</body>
User already has this button, it's called F11.
DO NOT try to be 'smart'. This kind of functionality is in browser's scope, not in web application scope. It should not be your concern at all.
Instead focus on features that are truly relevant to your application.
I have been developing a service that allows users to insert information from my database onto their sites by using iframes. The only problem was that the iframe needs to be resizeable and this is one of the biggest problems with iframes as most people already know, aswell as the fact I can access objects on the parent page from within the iframe and vice versa.
I have thought of making an asp.net web servie to server up the HTML and access it by using a get request. However this also has a problem since these request can only be made from the same domain?
What I need to know is the best way to retrieve a small piece of HTML containing customer reviews from server and display it on their page using some sort of AJAX.
Thanks
if your users can add a < script > line to their site pointing to code on your site, you can fairly easily offer a mechanism to build a floating (and resizable) DIV on their page that you jquery.load() with content from your site ...
example:
"To use my service on your site, add the following line to your < head >"
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://mysite.com/scripts/dataget.js />
then add a link or button anywhere and give it a class 'get-date-from-mysite'
< input type='button' value='Click to see the data' class='get-data-from-mysite' />
--
Then in that script you do (something like):
$(function() {
$('.get-data-from-mysite').click(function() {
$('body').append("<div id='mydiv' 'style=position:absolute; z-index:999; left: ...
$('#mydiv').load(' .... // url that sends html for content
});
...etc
resize-able div stuff needs to be added too
I think the jQuery library might be what you need - specifically, look into jQuery Ajax.
Following on what Scott Evernden is explaining, you can add a <script> tag such as:
<script id="my_script_tag" type='text/javascript' src='http://mysite.com/scripts/dataget.js' />
Inside dataget.js you can simply reference the script tag itself by using its "id" (document.getElementById("my_script_tag");) and replace it (insertBefore()) with relevant data.
To get the data from your server you can use JSONP (lots of stuff on SO as well), which is an ajax technique for cross-domain communication.
I have built a basic data entry application allowing users to browse external content in iframe and enter data quickly from the same page. One of the data variables is the URL.
Ideally I would like to be able to load the iframes current url into a textbox with javascript. I realize now that this is not going to happen due to security issues.
Has anyone done anything on the server side? or know of any .Net browser in browser controls. The ultimate goal is to just give the user an easy method of extracting the url of the page they are viewing in the iframe It doesn't necessarily HAVE to be an iframe, a browser in the browser would be ideal.
Thanks,
Adam
I did some tests in Firefox 3 comparing the value of .src and .documentWindow.location.href in an iframe. (Note: The documentWindow is called contentDocument in Chrome, so instead of .documentWindow.location.href in Chrome it will be .contentDocument.location.href.)
src is always the last URL that was loaded in the iframe without user interaction. I.e., it contains the first value for the URL, or the last value you set up with Javascript from the containing window doing:
document.getElementById("myiframe").src = 'http://www.google.com/';
If the user navigates inside the iframe, you can't anymore access the value of the URL using src. In the previous example, if the user goes away from www.google.com and you do:
alert(document.getElementById("myiframe").src);
You will still get "http://www.google.com".
documentWindow.location.href is only available if the iframe contains a page in the same domain as the containing window, but if it's available it always contains the right value for the URL, even if the user navigates in the iframe.
If you try to access documentWindow.location.href (or anything under documentWindow) and the iframe is in a page that doesn't belong to the domain of the containing window, it will raise an exception:
document.getElementById("myiframe").src = 'http://www.google.com/';
alert(document.getElementById("myiframe").documentWindow.location.href);
Error: Permission denied to get property Location.href
I have not tested any other browser.
Hope it helps!
document.getElementById('iframeID').contentWindow.location.href
You can't access cross-domain iframe location at all.
I use this.
var iframe = parent.document.getElementById("theiframe");
var innerDoc = iframe.contentDocument || iframe.contentWindow.document;
var currentFrame = innerDoc.location.href;
HTA works like a normal windows application.
You write HTML code, and save it as an .hta file.
However, there are, at least, one drawback: The browser can't open an .hta file; it's handled as a normal .exe program. So, if you place a link to an .hta onto your web page, it will open a download dialog, asking of you want to open or save the HTA file. If its not a problem for you, you can click "Open" and it will open a new window (that have no toolbars, so no Back button, neither address bar, neither menubar).
I needed to do something very similar to what you want, but instead of iframes, I used a real frameset.
The main page need to be a .hta file; the other should be a normal .htm page (or .php or whatever).
Here's an example of a HTA page with 2 frames, where the top one have a button and a text field, that contains the second frame URL; the button updates the field:
frameset.hta
<html>
<head>
<title>HTA Example</title>
<HTA:APPLICATION id="frames" border="thin" caption="yes" icon="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" showintaskbar="yes" singleinstance="no" sysmenu="yes" navigable="yes" contextmenu="no" innerborder="no" scroll="auto" scrollflat="yes" selection="yes" windowstate="normal"></HTA:APPLICATION>
</head>
<frameset rows="60px, *">
<frame src="topo.htm" name="topo" id="topo" application="yes" />
<frame src="http://www.google.com" name="conteudo" id="conteudo" application="yes" />
</frameset>
</html>
There's an HTA:APPLICATION tag that sets some properties to the file; it's good to have, but it isn't a must.
You NEED to place an application="yes" at the frames' tags. It says they belongs to the program too and should have access to all data (if you don't, the frames will still show the error you had before).
topo.htm
<html>
<head>
<title>Topo</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function copia_url() {
campo.value = parent.conteudo.location;
}
</script>
</head>
<body style="background: lightBlue;" onload="copia_url()">
<input type="button" value="Copiar URL" onclick="copia_url()" />
<input type="text" size="120" id="campo" />
</body>
</html>
You should notice that I didn't used any getElement function to fetch the field; on HTA file, all elements that have an ID becomes instantly an object
I hope this help you, and others that get to this question. It solved my problem, that looks like to be the same as you have.
You can found more information here: http://www.irt.org/articles/js191/index.htm
Enjoy =]
I like your server side idea, even if my proposed implementation of it sounds a little bit ghetto.
You could set the .innerHTML of the iframe to the HTML contents you grab server side. Depending on how you grab this, you will have to pay attention to relative versus absolute paths.
Plus, depending on how the page you are grabbing interacts with other pages, this could totally not work (cookies being set for the page you are grabbing won't work across domains, maybe state is being tracked in Javascript... Lots of reasons this might not work.)
I don't believe that tracking the current state of the page you are trying to mirror is theoretically possible, but I'm not sure. The site could track all sorts of things server side, you won't have access to this state. Imagine the case where on a page load a variable is set to a random value server-side, how would you capture this state?
Do these ideas help with anything?
-Brian J. Stinar-
Does this help?
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/iframe.html
I only tested this in firefox, but if you have something like this:
<iframe name='myframe' id='myframe' src='http://www.google.com'></iframe>
You can get its address by using:
document.getElementById('myframe').src
Not sure if I understood your question correctly but anyways :)
You can use Ra-Ajax and have an iframe wrapped inside e.g. a Window control. Though in general terms I don't encourage people to use iframes (for anything)
Another alternative is to load the HTML on the server and send it directly into the Window as the content of a Label or something. Check out how this Ajax RSS parser is loading the RSS items in the source which can be downloaded here (Open Source - LGPL)
(Disclaimer; I work with Ra-Ajax...)
Ok, so in this application, there is an iframe in which the user is supplied with links or some capacity that allows that iframe to browse to some external site. You are then looking to capture the URL to which the user has browsed.
Something to keep in mind. Since the URL is to an external source, you will be limited in how much you can interact with this iframe via javascript (or an client side access for that matter), this is known as browser cross-domain security, as apparently you have discovered. There are clever work arounds, as presented here Cross-domain, cross-frame Javascript, although I do not think this work around applies in this case.
About all you can access is the location, as you need.
I would suggest making the code presented more resilitant and less error prone. Try browsing the web sometime with IE or FF configured to show javascript errors. You will be surprised just how many javascript errors are thrown, largely because there is a lot of error prone javascript out there, which just continues to proliferate.
This solution assumes that the iframe in question is the same "window" context where you are running the javascript. (Meaning, it is not embedded within another frame or iframe, in which case, the javascript code gets more involved, and you likely need to recursively search through the window hierarchy.)
<iframe name='frmExternal' id='frmExternal' src='http://www.stackoverflow.com'></frame>
<input type='text' id='txtUrl' />
<input type='button' id='btnGetUrl' value='Get URL' onclick='GetIFrameUrl();' />
<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
function GetIFrameUrl()
{
if (!document.getElementById)
{
return;
}
var frm = document.getElementById("frmExternal");
var txt = document.getElementById("txtUrl");
if (frm == null || txt == null)
{
// not great user feedback but slightly better than obnoxious script errors
alert("There was a problem with this page, please refresh.");
return;
}
txt.value = frm.src;
}
</script>
Hope this helps.
You can access the src property of the iframe but that will only give you the initially loaded URL. If the user is navigating around in the iframe via you'll need to use an HTA to solve the security problem.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536474(VS.85).aspx
Check out the link, using an HTA and setting the "application" property of an iframe will allow you to access the document.href property and parse out all of the information you want, including DOM elements and their values if you so choose.