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Browser version specification for Outdated browser tool

I am using the following toll to check for browser version accessing my website and display a message at the top to notify the user to update his browser:
https://github.com/mikemaccana/outdated-browser
In the following example I am targeting < IE10 browsers.
<!-- plugin call -->
<script>
//event listener form DOM ready
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function() {
if (oldonload) {
oldonload();
}
func();
}
}
}
//call function after DOM ready
addLoadEvent(function(){
outdatedBrowser({
bgColor: '#f25648',
color: '#ffffff',
lowerThan: 'IE10',
languagePath: ''
})
});
</script>
Can I use the tool to detect a specific version of Firefox also in the lowerThan: field. If yes how should I proceed?

I would recommend detecting individual features. Try initializing whatever you need and if it fails then display the message. You can test all your features in a startup function, or try initializing plugins and see if it fails.
for example:
function supportsWebAudio() {
var hasWebKitAudio = 'webkitAudioContext' in window;
var hasAudioContext = 'AudioContext' in window;
if (!(hasWebKitAudio || hasAudioContext)) {
var audioElement = document.createElement('audio');
return audioElement.canPlayType;
}
return true;
}

Fullscreen mode working localhost but not on firebase server

I have a site located at 'http://motostats.live/' and im working on a fullscreen mode which can be accessed at the top right of the page. I was using jquery and the fullscreen API to get into fullscreen which worked fine locally, also tryed angular-fullscreen again and worked fine, but soon as i uploaded to firebase free hosting it creates some frameset which i cannot drill into? well i believe this makes my fullscreen code break. Anyone got some ideas? here was my original code:
function exitFullscreen(){
$('.container').css({maxWidth: '1500px'});
var el = $('html');
if (el.exitFullscreen) {
el.exitFullscreen();
} else if (el.msExitFullscreen) {
el.msExitFullscreen();
} else if (el.mozCancelFullScreen) {
el.mozCancelFullScreen();
} else if (el.webkitExitFullscreen) {
el.webkitExitFullscreen();
}
vm.fullscreen = false;
}
function goFullscreen(){
var el = $('html');
$('.container').css({maxWidth: '100%'});
if (el.requestFullscreen) {
el.requestFullscreen();
} else if (el.msRequestFullscreen) {
el.msRequestFullscreen();
} else if (el.mozRequestFullScreen) {
el.mozRequestFullScreen();
} else if (el.webkitRequestFullscreen) {
el.webkitRequestFullscreen();
}
vm.fullscreen = true;
}
Link to the github of angular-fullscreen: https://github.com/fabiobiondi/angular-fullscreen
Also here is the top of my page once loaded and online with firebaseapp

Not able to check popup blocker is enabled or not in chrome [duplicate]

I am aware of javascript techniques to detect whether a popup is blocked in other browsers (as described in the answer to this question). Here's the basic test:
var newWin = window.open(url);
if(!newWin || newWin.closed || typeof newWin.closed=='undefined')
{
//POPUP BLOCKED
}
But this does not work in Chrome. The "POPUP BLOCKED" section is never reached when the popup is blocked.
Of course, the test is working to an extent since Chrome doesn't actually block the popup, but opens it in a tiny minimized window at the lower right corner which lists "blocked" popups.
What I would like to do is be able to tell if the popup was blocked by Chrome's popup blocker. I try to avoid browser sniffing in favor of feature detection. Is there a way to do this without browser sniffing?
Edit: I have now tried making use of newWin.outerHeight, newWin.left, and other similar properties to accomplish this. Google Chrome returns all position and height values as 0 when the popup is blocked.
Unfortunately, it also returns the same values even if the popup is actually opened for an unknown amount of time. After some magical period (a couple of seconds in my testing), the location and size information is returned as the correct values. In other words, I'm still no closer to figuring this out. Any help would be appreciated.

Well the "magical time" you speak of is probably when the popup's DOM has been loaded. Or else it might be when everything (images, outboard CSS, etc.) has been loaded. You could test this easily by adding a very large graphic to the popup (clear your cache first!). If you were using a Javascript Framework like jQuery (or something similar), you could use the ready() event (or something similar) to wait for the DOM to load before checking the window offset. The danger in this is that Safari detection works in a conflicting way: the popup's DOM will never be ready() in Safari because it'll give you a valid handle for the window you're trying to open -- whether it actually opens or not. (in fact, i believe your popup test code above won't work for safari.)
I think the best thing you can do is wrap your test in a setTimeout() and give the popup 3-5 seconds to complete loading before running the test. It's not perfect, but it should work at least 95% of the time.
Here's the code I use for cross-browser detection, without the Chrome part.
function _hasPopupBlocker(poppedWindow) {
var result = false;
try {
if (typeof poppedWindow == 'undefined') {
// Safari with popup blocker... leaves the popup window handle undefined
result = true;
}
else if (poppedWindow && poppedWindow.closed) {
// This happens if the user opens and closes the client window...
// Confusing because the handle is still available, but it's in a "closed" state.
// We're not saying that the window is not being blocked, we're just saying
// that the window has been closed before the test could be run.
result = false;
}
else if (poppedWindow && poppedWindow.test) {
// This is the actual test. The client window should be fine.
result = false;
}
else {
// Else we'll assume the window is not OK
result = true;
}
} catch (err) {
//if (console) {
// console.warn("Could not access popup window", err);
//}
}
return result;
}
What I do is run this test from the parent and wrap it in a setTimeout(), giving the child window 3-5 seconds to load. In the child window, you need to add a test function:
function test() {}
The popup blocker detector tests to see whether the "test" function exists as a member of the child window.
ADDED JUNE 15 2015:
I think the modern way to handle this would be to use window.postMessage() to have the child notify the parent that the window has been loaded. The approach is similar (child tells parent it's loaded), but the means of communication has improved. I was able to do this cross-domain from the child:
$(window).load(function() {
this.opener.postMessage({'loaded': true}, "*");
this.close();
});
The parent listens for this message using:
$(window).on('message', function(event) {
alert(event.originalEvent.data.loaded)
});
Hope this helps.

Just one improvement to InvisibleBacon's snipet (tested in IE9, Safari 5, Chrome 9 and FF 3.6):
var myPopup = window.open("popupcheck.htm", "", "directories=no,height=150,width=150,menubar=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,titlebar=no,top=0,location=no");
if (!myPopup)
alert("failed for most browsers");
else {
myPopup.onload = function() {
setTimeout(function() {
if (myPopup.screenX === 0) {
alert("failed for chrome");
} else {
// close the test window if popups are allowed.
myPopup.close();
}
}, 0);
};
}

The following is a jQuery solution to popup blocker checking. It has been tested in FF (v11), Safari (v6), Chrome (v23.0.127.95) & IE (v7 & v9). Update the _displayError function to handle the error message as you see fit.
var popupBlockerChecker = {
check: function(popup_window){
var _scope = this;
if (popup_window) {
if(/chrome/.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase())){
setTimeout(function () {
_scope._is_popup_blocked(_scope, popup_window);
},200);
}else{
popup_window.onload = function () {
_scope._is_popup_blocked(_scope, popup_window);
};
}
}else{
_scope._displayError();
}
},
_is_popup_blocked: function(scope, popup_window){
if ((popup_window.innerHeight > 0)==false){ scope._displayError(); }
},
_displayError: function(){
alert("Popup Blocker is enabled! Please add this site to your exception list.");
}
};
Usage:
var popup = window.open("http://www.google.ca", '_blank');
popupBlockerChecker.check(popup);
Hope this helps! :)

Rich's answer isn't going to work anymore for Chrome. Looks like Chrome actually executes any Javascript in the popup window now. I ended up checking for a screenX value of 0 to check for blocked popups. I also think I found a way to guarantee that this property is final before checking. This only works for popups on your domain, but you can add an onload handler like this:
var myPopup = window.open("site-on-my-domain", "screenX=100");
if (!myPopup)
alert("failed for most browsers");
else {
myPopup.onload = function() {
setTimeout(function() {
if (myPopup.screenX === 0)
alert("failed for chrome");
}, 0);
};
}
As many have reported, the "screenX" property sometimes reports non-zero for failed popups, even after onload. I experienced this behavior as well, but if you add the check after a zero ms timeout, the screenX property always seems to output a consistent value.
Let me know if there are ways to make this script more robust. Seems to work for my purposes though.

This worked for me:
cope.PopupTest.params = 'height=1,width=1,left=-100,top=-100,location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,directories=no,status=no';
cope.PopupTest.testWindow = window.open("popupTest.htm", "popupTest", cope.PopupTest.params);
if( !cope.PopupTest.testWindow
|| cope.PopupTest.testWindow.closed
|| (typeof cope.PopupTest.testWindow.closed=='undefined')
|| cope.PopupTest.testWindow.outerHeight == 0
|| cope.PopupTest.testWindow.outerWidth == 0
) {
// pop-ups ARE blocked
document.location.href = 'popupsBlocked.htm';
}
else {
// pop-ups are NOT blocked
cope.PopupTest.testWindow.close();
}
The outerHeight and outerWidth are for chrome because the 'about:blank' trick from above doesn't work in chrome anymore.

I'm going to just copy/paste the answer provided here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27725432/892099 by DanielB . works on chrome 40 and it's very clean. no dirty hacks or waiting involves.
function popup(urlToOpen) {
var popup_window=window.open(urlToOpen,"myWindow","toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes, copyhistory=yes, width=400, height=400");
try {
popup_window.focus();
}
catch (e) {
alert("Pop-up Blocker is enabled! Please add this site to your exception list.");
}
}

How about a Promise approach ?
const openPopUp = (...args) => new Promise(s => {
const win = window.open(...args)
if (!win || win.closed) return s()
setTimeout(() => (win.innerHeight > 0 && !win.closed) ? s(win) : s(), 200)
})
And you can use it like the classic window.open
const win = await openPopUp('popuptest.htm', 'popuptest')
if (!win) {
// popup closed or blocked, handle alternative case
}
You could change the code so that it fail the promise instead of returning undefined, I just thought that if was an easier control flow than try / catch for this case.

Check the position of the window relative to the parent. Chrome makes the window appear almost off-screen.

I had a similar problem with popups not opening in Chrome. I was frustrated because I wasn't trying to do something sneaky, like an onload popup, just opening a window when the user clicked. I was DOUBLY frustrated because running my function which included the window.open() from the firebug command line worked, while actually clicking on my link didn't! Here was my solution:
Wrong way: running window.open() from an event listener (in my case, dojo.connect to the onclick event method of a DOM node).
dojo.connect(myNode, "onclick", function() {
window.open();
}
Right way: assigning a function to the onclick property of the node that called window.open().
myNode.onclick = function() {
window.open();
}
And, of course, I can still do event listeners for that same onclick event if I need to. With this change, I could open my windows even though Chrome was set to "Do not allow any site to show pop-ups". Joy.
If anyone wise in the ways of Chrome can tell the rest of us why it makes a difference, I'd love to hear it, although I suspect it's just an attempt to shut the door on malicious programmatic popups.

Here's a version that is currently working in Chrome. Just a small alteration away from Rich's solution, though I added in a wrapper that handles the timing too.
function checkPopupBlocked(poppedWindow) {
setTimeout(function(){doCheckPopupBlocked(poppedWindow);}, 5000);
}
function doCheckPopupBlocked(poppedWindow) {
var result = false;
try {
if (typeof poppedWindow == 'undefined') {
// Safari with popup blocker... leaves the popup window handle undefined
result = true;
}
else if (poppedWindow && poppedWindow.closed) {
// This happens if the user opens and closes the client window...
// Confusing because the handle is still available, but it's in a "closed" state.
// We're not saying that the window is not being blocked, we're just saying
// that the window has been closed before the test could be run.
result = false;
}
else if (poppedWindow && poppedWindow.outerWidth == 0) {
// This is usually Chrome's doing. The outerWidth (and most other size/location info)
// will be left at 0, EVEN THOUGH the contents of the popup will exist (including the
// test function we check for next). The outerWidth starts as 0, so a sufficient delay
// after attempting to pop is needed.
result = true;
}
else if (poppedWindow && poppedWindow.test) {
// This is the actual test. The client window should be fine.
result = false;
}
else {
// Else we'll assume the window is not OK
result = true;
}
} catch (err) {
//if (console) {
// console.warn("Could not access popup window", err);
//}
}
if(result)
alert("The popup was blocked. You must allow popups to use this site.");
}
To use it just do this:
var popup=window.open('location',etc...);
checkPopupBlocked(popup);
If the popup get's blocked, the alert message will display after the 5 second grace period (you can adjust that, but 5 seconds should be quite safe).

This fragment incorporates all of the above - For some reason - StackOverflow is excluding the first and last lines of code in the code block below, so I wrote a blog on it. For a full explanation and the rest of the (downloadable) code have a look at
my blog at thecodeabode.blogspot.com
var PopupWarning = {
init : function()
{
if(this.popups_are_disabled() == true)
{
this.redirect_to_instruction_page();
}
},
redirect_to_instruction_page : function()
{
document.location.href = "http://thecodeabode.blogspot.com";
},
popups_are_disabled : function()
{
var popup = window.open("http://localhost/popup_with_chrome_js.html", "popup_tester", "width=1,height=1,left=0,top=0");
if(!popup || popup.closed || typeof popup == 'undefined' || typeof popup.closed=='undefined')
{
return true;
}
window.focus();
popup.blur();
//
// Chrome popup detection requires that the popup validates itself - so we need to give
// the popup time to load, then call js on the popup itself
//
if(navigator && (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()).indexOf("chrome") > -1)
{
var on_load_test = function(){PopupWarning.test_chrome_popups(popup);};
var timer = setTimeout(on_load_test, 60);
return;
}
popup.close();
return false;
},
test_chrome_popups : function(popup)
{
if(popup && popup.chrome_popups_permitted && popup.chrome_popups_permitted() == true)
{
popup.close();
return true;
}
//
// If the popup js fails - popups are blocked
//
this.redirect_to_instruction_page();
}
};
PopupWarning.init();

Wow there sure are a lot of solutions here. This is mine, it uses solutions taken from the current accepted answer (which doesn't work in latest Chrome and requires wrapping it in a timeout), as well as a related solution on this thread (which is actually vanilla JS, not jQuery).
Mine uses a callback architecture which will be sent true when the popup is blocked and false otherwise.
window.isPopupBlocked = function(popup_window, cb)
{
var CHROME_CHECK_TIME = 2000; // the only way to detect this in Chrome is to wait a bit and see if the window is present
function _is_popup_blocked(popup)
{
return !popup.innerHeight;
}
if (popup_window) {
if (popup_window.closed) {
// opened OK but was closed before we checked
cb(false);
return;
}
if (/chrome/.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase())) {
// wait a bit before testing the popup in chrome
setTimeout(function() {
cb(_is_popup_blocked(popup_window));
}, CHROME_CHECK_TIME);
} else {
// for other browsers, add an onload event and check after that
popup_window.onload = function() {
cb(_is_popup_blocked(popup_window));
};
}
} else {
cb(true);
}
};

Jason's answer is the only method I can think of too, but relying on position like that is a little bit dodgy!
These days, you don't really need to ask the question “was my unsolicited popup blocked?”, because the answer is invariably “yes” — all the major browsers have the popup blocker turned on by default. Best approach is only ever to window.open() in response to a direct click, which is almost always allowed.

HI
I modified the solutions described above slightly and think that it is working for Chrome at least.
My solution is made to detect if popup is blocked when the main page is opened, not when popup is opened, but i am sure there are some people that can modify it.:-)
The drawback here is that the popup-window is displayed for a couple of seconds (might be possible to shorten a bit) when there is no popup-blocker.
I put this in the section of my 'main' window
<script type="text/JavaScript" language="JavaScript">
var mine = window.open('popuptest.htm','popuptest','width=1px,height=1px,left=0,top=0,scrollbars=no');
if(!mine|| mine.closed || typeof mine.closed=='undefined')
{
popUpsBlocked = true
alert('Popup blocker detected ');
if(mine)
mine.close();
}
else
{
popUpsBlocked = false
var cookieCheckTimer = null;
cookieCheckTimer = setTimeout('testPopup();', 3500);
}
function testPopup()
{
if(mine)
{
if(mine.test())
{
popUpsBlocked = false;
}
else
{
alert('Popup blocker detected ');
popUpsBlocked = true;
}
mine.close();
}
}
</script>
The popuptest looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Popup test</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript">
function test() {if(window.innerHeight!=0){return true;} else return false;}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
As i call the test-function on the popup-page after 3500 ms the innerheight has been set correctly by Chrome.
I use the variable popUpsBlocked to know if the popups are displayed or not in other javascripts.
i.e
function ShowConfirmationMessage()
{
if(popUpsBlocked)
{
alert('Popups are blocked, can not display confirmation popup. A mail will be sent with the confirmation.');
}
else
{
displayConfirmationPopup();
}
mailConfirmation();
}

function openPopUpWindow(format)
{
var win = window.open('popupShow.html',
'ReportViewer',
'width=920px,height=720px,left=50px,top=20px,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=1,maximize:yes,scrollbars=0');
if (win == null || typeof(win) == "undefined" || (win == null && win.outerWidth == 0) || (win != null && win.outerHeight == 0) || win.test == "undefined")
{
alert("The popup was blocked. You must allow popups to use this site.");
}
else if (win)
{
win.onload = function()
{
if (win.screenX === 0) {
alert("The popup was blocked. You must allow popups to use this site.");
win.close();
}
};
}
}

As far as I can tell (from what I've tested) Chrome returns a window object with location of 'about:blank'.
So, the following should work for all browsers:
var newWin = window.open(url);
if(!newWin || newWin.closed || typeof newWin.closed=='undefined' || newWin.location=='about:blank')
{
//POPUP BLOCKED
}

Detecting when an iframe gets or loses focus

What's the correct way of detecting when an iframe gets or loses focus (i.e. will or will not receive keyboard events)? The following is not working in Fx4:
var iframe = /* my iframe */;
iframe.addEventListener("focus", function() { /* never gets called */ }, false);

You can poll "document.activeElement" to determine if it matches the iframe. Polling isn't ideal, but it works:
function checkFocus() {
if(document.activeElement == document.getElementsByTagName("iframe")[0]) {
console.log('iframe has focus');
} else {
console.log('iframe not focused');
}
}
window.setInterval(checkFocus, 1000);

i know it's old, but i also had the same problem.
i ended up using this little pice of code:
$(document).on('focusout', function(){
setTimeout(function(){
// using the 'setTimout' to let the event pass the run loop
if (document.activeElement instanceof HTMLIFrameElement) {
// Do your logic here..
}
},0);
});

Turns out it's not really possible. I had to change the logic of my page to avoid the need of tracking if the iframe has focus.

How to check when an iframe has been clicked in or out of as well as hover-state.
Note: I would highly recommend you don't choose a polling method and go with an event driven method such as this.
Disclaimer
It is not possible to use the focus or blur events directly on an iframe but you can use them on the window to provide an event driven method of checking the document.activeElement. Thus you can accomplish what you're after.
Although we're now in 2018, my code is being implemented in GTM and tries to be cross browser compatible back to IE 11. This means there's more efficient code if you're utilizing newer ES/ECMAScript features.
Setup
I'm going to take this a few steps further to show that we can also get the iframe's src attribute as well as determine if it's being hovered.
Code
You would ideally need to put this in a document ready event, or at least encapsulate it so that the variables aren't global [maybe use an IIFE]. I did not wrap it in a document ready because it's handled by GTM. It may also depend where you place this or how you're loading it such as in the footer.
https://jsfiddle.net/9285tbsm/9/
I have noticed in the JSFiddle preview that it's already an iframe, sometimes you have to focus it first before events start to capture. Other issues can be that your browser window isn't yet focused either.
// Helpers
var iframeClickedLast;
function eventFromIframe(event) {
var el = event.target;
return el && el.tagName && el.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'iframe';
}
function getIframeSrc(event) {
var el = event.target;
return eventFromIframe(event) ? el.getAttribute('src') : '';
}
// Events
function windowBlurred(e) {
var el = document.activeElement;
if (el.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'iframe') {
console.log('Blurred: iframe CLICKED ON', 'SRC:', el.getAttribute('src'), e);
iframeClickedLast = true;
}
else {
console.log('Blurred', e);
}
}
function windowFocussed(e) {
if (iframeClickedLast) {
var el = document.activeElement;
iframeClickedLast = false;
console.log('Focussed: iframe CLICKED OFF', 'SRC:', el.getAttribute('src'), e);
}
else {
console.log('Focussed', e);
}
}
function iframeMouseOver(e) {
console.log('Mouse Over', 'SRC:', getIframeSrc(e), e);
}
function iframeMouseOut(e) {
console.log('Mouse Out', 'SRC:', getIframeSrc(e), e);
}
// Attach Events
window.addEventListener('focus', windowFocussed, true);
window.addEventListener('blur', windowBlurred, true);
var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe");
for (var i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
iframes[i].addEventListener('mouseover', iframeMouseOver, true);
iframes[i].addEventListener('mouseout', iframeMouseOut, true);
}

I have solved this by using contentWindow instead of contentDocument.
The good thing about contentWindow is
it works also in case user clicks another window (another application) or another browser tab. If using activeElement, if user clicks away from the entire window to go to another application, then that logic still think the iframe is in focus, while it is not
and we don't need to poll and do a setInterval at all. This uses the normal addEventListener
let iframe = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe")[0];
// or whatever way you do to grab that iFrame, say you have an `id`, then it's even more precise
if(iframe){
iframeWindow = iframe.contentWindow;
iframeWindow.addEventListener('focus', handleIframeFocused);
iframeWindow.addEventListener('blur', handleIframeBlurred);
}
function handleIframeFocused(){
console.log('iframe focused');
// Additional logic that you need to implement here when focused
}
function handleIframeBlurred(){
console.log('iframe blurred');
// Additional logic that you need to implement here when blurred
}

This solution is working for me on both mobile and desktop:
;(function pollForIframe() {
var myIframe = document.querySelector('#my_iframe');
if (!myIframe) return setTimeout(pollForIframe, 50);
window.addEventListener('blur', function () {
if (document.activeElement == myIframe) {
console.log('myIframe clicked!');
}
});
})();

The solution is to inject a javascript event on the parent page like this :
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.type = 'text/javascript';
script.innerHTML =
"document.addEventListener('click', function()" +
"{ if(document.getElementById('iframe')) {" +
// What you want
"}});";
head.appendChild(script);

Here is the code to Detecting when an iframe gets or loses focus
// This code can be used to verify Iframe gets focus/loses.
function CheckFocus(){
if (document.activeElement.id == $(':focus').context.activeElement.id) {
// here do something
}
else{
//do something
}
}

A compact function that accepts callbacks you want to run when iframe gets or loses focus.
/* eslint-disable no-unused-vars */
export default function watchIframeFocus(onFocus, onBlur) {
let iframeClickedLast;
function windowBlurred(e) {
const el = document.activeElement;
if (el.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'iframe') {
iframeClickedLast = true;
onFocus();
}
}
function windowFocussed(e) {
if (iframeClickedLast) {
iframeClickedLast = false;
onBlur();
}
}
window.addEventListener('focus', windowFocussed, true);
window.addEventListener('blur', windowBlurred, true);
}

This might work
document.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
var frame= document.getElementById("yourFrameID");
var isClickInsideFrame = frame.contains(event.target);
if (!isClickInsideFrame ) {
//exec code
}
});

Detect Click into Iframe using JavaScript

I understand that it is not possible to tell what the user is doing inside an iframe if it is cross domain. What I would like to do is track if the user clicked at all in the iframe. I imagine a scenario where there is an invisible div on top of the iframe and the the div will just then pass the click event to the iframe.
Is something like this possible? If it is, then how would I go about it? The iframes are ads, so I have no control over the tags that are used.

This is certainly possible. This works in Chrome, Firefox, and IE 11 (and probably others).
const message = document.getElementById("message");
// main document must be focused in order for window blur to fire when the iframe is interacted with.
// There's still an issue that if user interacts outside of the page and then click iframe first without clicking page, the following logic won't run. But since the OP is only concerned about first click this shouldn't be a problem.
window.focus()
window.addEventListener("blur", () => {
setTimeout(() => {
if (document.activeElement.tagName === "IFRAME") {
message.textContent = "clicked " + Date.now();
console.log("clicked");
}
});
}, { once: true });
<div id="message"></div>
<iframe width="50%" height="300" src="//example.com"></iframe>
Caveat: This only detects the first click. As I understand, that is all you want.

This is small solution that works in all browsers even IE8:
var monitor = setInterval(function(){
var elem = document.activeElement;
if(elem && elem.tagName == 'IFRAME'){
clearInterval(monitor);
alert('clicked!');
}
}, 100);
You can test it here: http://jsfiddle.net/oqjgzsm0/

Based on Mohammed Radwan's answer I came up with the following jQuery solution. Basically what it does is keep track of what iFrame people are hovering. Then if the window blurs that most likely means the user clicked the iframe banner.
the iframe should be put in a div with an id, to make sure you know which iframe the user clicked on:
<div class='banner' bannerid='yyy'>
<iframe src='http://somedomain.com/whatever.html'></iframe>
<div>
so:
$(document).ready( function() {
var overiFrame = -1;
$('iframe').hover( function() {
overiFrame = $(this).closest('.banner').attr('bannerid');
}, function() {
overiFrame = -1
});
...
this keeps overiFrame at -1 when no iFrames are hovered, or the 'bannerid' set in the wrapping div when an iframe is hovered. All you have to do is check if 'overiFrame' is set when the window blurs, like so:
...
$(window).blur( function() {
if( overiFrame != -1 )
$.post('log.php', {id:overiFrame}); /* example, do your stats here */
});
});
Very elegant solution with a minor downside: if a user presses ALT-F4 when hovering the mouse over an iFrame it will log it as a click. This only happened in FireFox though, IE, Chrome and Safari didn't register it.
Thanks again Mohammed, very useful solution!

Is something like this possible?
No. All you can do is detect the mouse going into the iframe, and potentially (though not reliably) when it comes back out (ie. trying to work out the difference between the pointer passing over the ad on its way somewhere else versus lingering on the ad).
I imagine a scenario where there is an invisible div on top of the iframe and the the div will just then pass the click event to the iframe.
Nope, there is no way to fake a click event.
By catching the mousedown you'd prevent the original click from getting to the iframe. If you could determine when the mouse button was about to be pressed you could try to get the invisible div out of the way so that the click would go through... but there is also no event that fires just before a mousedown.
You could try to guess, for example by looking to see if the pointer has come to rest, guessing a click might be about to come. But it's totally unreliable, and if you fail you've just lost yourself a click-through.

The following code will show you if the user click/hover or move out of the iframe:-
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Detect IFrame Clicks</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var isOverIFrame = false;
function processMouseOut() {
log("IFrame mouse >> OUT << detected.");
isOverIFrame = false;
top.focus();
}
function processMouseOver() {
log("IFrame mouse >> OVER << detected.");
isOverIFrame = true;
}
function processIFrameClick() {
if(isOverIFrame) {
// replace with your function
log("IFrame >> CLICK << detected. ");
}
}
function log(message) {
var console = document.getElementById("console");
var text = console.value;
text = text + message + "\n";
console.value = text;
}
function attachOnloadEvent(func, obj) {
if(typeof window.addEventListener != 'undefined') {
window.addEventListener('load', func, false);
} else if (typeof document.addEventListener != 'undefined') {
document.addEventListener('load', func, false);
} else if (typeof window.attachEvent != 'undefined') {
window.attachEvent('onload', func);
} else {
if (typeof window.onload == 'function') {
var oldonload = onload;
window.onload = function() {
oldonload();
func();
};
} else {
window.onload = func;
}
}
}
function init() {
var element = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe");
for (var i=0; i<element.length; i++) {
element[i].onmouseover = processMouseOver;
element[i].onmouseout = processMouseOut;
}
if (typeof window.attachEvent != 'undefined') {
top.attachEvent('onblur', processIFrameClick);
}
else if (typeof window.addEventListener != 'undefined') {
top.addEventListener('blur', processIFrameClick, false);
}
}
attachOnloadEvent(init);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="www.google.com" width="100%" height="1300px"></iframe>
<br></br>
<br></br>
<form name="form" id="form" action=""><textarea name="console"
id="console" style="width: 100%; height: 300px;" cols="" rows=""></textarea>
<button name="clear" id="clear" type="reset">Clear</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
You need to replace the src in the iframe with your own link. Hope this'll help.
Regards,
Mo.

Just found this solution...
I tried it, I loved it..
Works for cross domain iframes for desktop and mobile!
Don't know if it is foolproof yet
window.focus();
window.addEventListener('blur',function(){
if(document.activeElement.id == 'CrossDomainiframeId'){
//do something :-)
}
});
Happy coding

You can achieve this by using the blur event on window element.
Here is a jQuery plugin for tracking click on iframes (it will fire a custom callback function when an iframe is clicked) :
https://github.com/finalclap/iframeTracker-jquery
Use it like this :
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$('.iframe_wrap iframe').iframeTracker({
blurCallback: function(){
// Do something when iframe is clicked (like firing an XHR request)
}
});
});

see http://jsfiddle.net/Lcy797h2/ for my long winded solution that doesn't work reliably in IE
$(window).on('blur',function(e) {
if($(this).data('mouseIn') != 'yes')return;
$('iframe').filter(function(){
return $(this).data('mouseIn') == 'yes';
}).trigger('iframeclick');
});
$(window).mouseenter(function(){
$(this).data('mouseIn', 'yes');
}).mouseleave(function(){
$(this).data('mouseIn', 'no');
});
$('iframe').mouseenter(function(){
$(this).data('mouseIn', 'yes');
$(window).data('mouseIn', 'yes');
}).mouseleave(function(){
$(this).data('mouseIn', null);
});
$('iframe').on('iframeclick', function(){
console.log('Clicked inside iframe');
$('#result').text('Clicked inside iframe');
});
$(window).on('click', function(){
console.log('Clicked inside window');
$('#result').text('Clicked inside window');
}).blur(function(){
console.log('window blur');
});
$('<input type="text" style="position:absolute;opacity:0;height:0px;width:0px;"/>').appendTo(document.body).blur(function(){
$(window).trigger('blur');
}).focus();

http://jsfiddle.net/QcAee/406/
Just make a invisible layer over the iframe that go back when click and go up when mouseleave event will be fired !!
Need jQuery
this solution don't propagate first click inside iframe!
$("#invisible_layer").on("click",function(){
alert("click");
$("#invisible_layer").css("z-index",-11);
});
$("iframe").on("mouseleave",function(){
$("#invisible_layer").css("z-index",11);
});
iframe {
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
}
#invisible_layer{
position: absolute;
background-color:trasparent;
width: 500px;
height:300px;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="message"></div>
<div id="invisible_layer">
</div>
<iframe id="iframe" src="//example.com"></iframe>

This works for me on all browsers (included Firefox)
https://gist.github.com/jaydson/1780598
https://jsfiddle.net/sidanmor/v6m9exsw/
var myConfObj = {
iframeMouseOver : false
}
window.addEventListener('blur',function(){
if(myConfObj.iframeMouseOver){
console.log('Wow! Iframe Click!');
}
});
document.getElementById('idanmorblog').addEventListener('mouseover',function(){
myConfObj.iframeMouseOver = true;
});
document.getElementById('idanmorblog').addEventListener('mouseout',function(){
myConfObj.iframeMouseOver = false;
});
<iframe id="idanmorblog" src="https://sidanmor.com/" style="width:400px;height:600px" ></iframe>
<iframe id="idanmorblog" src="https://sidanmor.com/" style="width:400px;height:600px" ></iframe>

Mohammed Radwan,
Your solution is elegant. To detect iframe clicks in Firefox and IE, you can use a simple method with document.activeElement and a timer, however... I have searched all over the interwebs for a method to detect clicks on an iframe in Chrome and Safari. At the brink of giving up, I find your answer. Thank you, sir!
Some tips:
I have found your solution to be more reliable when calling the init() function directly, rather than through attachOnloadEvent(). Of course to do that, you must call init() only after the iframe html. So it would look something like:
<script>
var isOverIFrame = false;
function processMouseOut() {
isOverIFrame = false;
top.focus();
}
function processMouseOver() { isOverIFrame = true; }
function processIFrameClick() {
if(isOverIFrame) {
//was clicked
}
}
function init() {
var element = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe");
for (var i=0; i<element.length; i++) {
element[i].onmouseover = processMouseOver;
element[i].onmouseout = processMouseOut;
}
if (typeof window.attachEvent != 'undefined') {
top.attachEvent('onblur', processIFrameClick);
}
else if (typeof window.addEventListener != 'undefined') {
top.addEventListener('blur', processIFrameClick, false);
}
}
</script>
<iframe src="http://google.com"></iframe>
<script>init();</script>

You can do this to bubble events to parent document:
$('iframe').load(function() {
var eventlist = 'click dblclick \
blur focus focusin focusout \
keydown keypress keyup \
mousedown mouseenter mouseleave mousemove mouseover mouseout mouseup mousemove \
touchstart touchend touchcancel touchleave touchmove';
var iframe = $('iframe').contents().find('html');
// Bubble events to parent
iframe.on(eventlist, function(event) {
$('html').trigger(event);
});
});
Just extend the eventlist for more events.

I ran into a situation where I had to track clicks on a social media button pulled in through an iframe. A new window would be opened when the button was clicked. Here was my solution:
var iframeClick = function () {
var isOverIframe = false,
windowLostBlur = function () {
if (isOverIframe === true) {
// DO STUFF
isOverIframe = false;
}
};
jQuery(window).focus();
jQuery('#iframe').mouseenter(function(){
isOverIframe = true;
console.log(isOverIframe);
});
jQuery('#iframe').mouseleave(function(){
isOverIframe = false;
console.log(isOverIframe);
});
jQuery(window).blur(function () {
windowLostBlur();
});
};
iframeClick();

Combining above answer with ability to click again and again without clicking outside iframe.
var eventListener = window.addEventListener('blur', function() {
if (document.activeElement === document.getElementById('contentIFrame')) {
toFunction(); //function you want to call on click
setTimeout(function(){ window.focus(); }, 0);
}
window.removeEventListener('blur', eventListener );
});

This definitely works if the iframe is from the same domain as your parent site. I have not tested it for cross-domain sites.
$(window.frames['YouriFrameId']).click(function(event){ /* do something here */ });
$(window.frames['YouriFrameId']).mousedown(function(event){ /* do something here */ });
$(window.frames['YouriFrameId']).mouseup(function(event){ /* do something here */ });
Without jQuery you could try something like this, but again I have not tried this.
window.frames['YouriFrameId'].onmousedown = function() { do something here }
You can even filter your results:
$(window.frames['YouriFrameId']).mousedown(function(event){
var eventId = $(event.target).attr('id');
if (eventId == 'the-id-you-want') {
// do something
}
});

We can catch all the clicks. The idea is to reset focus on an element outside the iFrame after each click:
<input type="text" style="position:fixed;top:-1000px;left:-1000px">
<div id="message"></div>
<iframe id="iframe" src="//example.com"></iframe>
<script>
focus();
addEventListener('blur', function() {
if(document.activeElement = document.getElementById('iframe')) {
message.innerHTML += 'Clicked';
setTimeout(function () {
document.querySelector("input").focus();
message.innerHTML += ' - Reset focus,';
}, 1000);
}
});
</script>
JSFiddle

Assumptions -
Your script runs outside the iframe BUT NOT in the outermost window.top window. (For outermost window, other blur solutions are good enough)
A new page is opened replacing the current page / a new page in a new tab and control is switched to new tab.
This works for both sourceful and sourceless iframes
var ifr = document.getElementById("my-iframe");
var isMouseIn;
ifr.addEventListener('mouseenter', () => {
isMouseIn = true;
});
ifr.addEventListener('mouseleave', () => {
isMouseIn = false;
});
window.document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", () => {
if (isMouseIn && document.hidden) {
console.log("Click Recorded By Visibility Change");
}
});
window.addEventListener("beforeunload", (event) => {
if (isMouseIn) {
console.log("Click Recorded By Before Unload");
}
});
If a new tab is opened / same page unloads and the mouse pointer is within the Iframe, a click is considered

Based in the answer of Paul Draper, I created a solution that work continuously when you have Iframes that open other tab in the browser. When you return the page continue to be active to detect the click over the framework, this is a very common situation:
focus();
$(window).blur(() => {
let frame = document.activeElement;
if (document.activeElement.tagName == "IFRAME") {
// Do you action.. here frame has the iframe clicked
let frameid = frame.getAttribute('id')
let frameurl = (frame.getAttribute('src'));
}
});
document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", function () {
if (document.hidden) {
} else {
focus();
}
});
The Code is simple, the blur event detect the lost of focus when the iframe is clicked, and test if the active element is the iframe (if you have several iframe you can know who was selected) this situation is frequently when you have publicity frames.
The second event trigger a focus method when you return to the page. it is used the visibility change event.

Here is solution using suggested approaches with hover+blur and active element tricks, not any libraries, just pure js. Works fine for FF/Chrome. Mostly approache is same as #Mohammed Radwan proposed, except that I use different method proposed by #zone117x to track iframe click for FF, because window.focus is not working without addition user settings:
Makes a request to bring the window to the front. It may fail due to
user settings and the window isn't guaranteed to be frontmost before
this method returns.
Here is compound method:
function () {
const state = {};
(function (setup) {
if (typeof window.addEventListener !== 'undefined') {
window.addEventListener('load', setup, false);
} else if (typeof document.addEventListener !== 'undefined') {
document.addEventListener('load', setup, false);
} else if (typeof window.attachEvent !== 'undefined') {
window.attachEvent('onload', setup);
} else {
if (typeof window.onload === 'function') {
const oldonload = onload;
window.onload = function () {
oldonload();
setup();
};
} else {
window.onload = setup;
}
}
})(function () {
state.isOverIFrame = false;
state.firstBlur = false;
state.hasFocusAcquired = false;
findIFramesAndBindListeners();
document.body.addEventListener('click', onClick);
if (typeof window.attachEvent !== 'undefined') {
top.attachEvent('onblur', function () {
state.firstBlur = true;
state.hasFocusAcquired = false;
onIFrameClick()
});
top.attachEvent('onfocus', function () {
state.hasFocusAcquired = true;
console.log('attachEvent.focus');
});
} else if (typeof window.addEventListener !== 'undefined') {
top.addEventListener('blur', function () {
state.firstBlur = true;
state.hasFocusAcquired = false;
onIFrameClick();
}, false);
top.addEventListener('focus', function () {
state.hasFocusAcquired = true;
console.log('addEventListener.focus');
});
}
setInterval(findIFramesAndBindListeners, 500);
});
function isFF() {
return navigator.userAgent.search(/firefox/i) !== -1;
}
function isActiveElementChanged() {
const prevActiveTag = document.activeElement.tagName.toUpperCase();
document.activeElement.blur();
const currActiveTag = document.activeElement.tagName.toUpperCase();
return !prevActiveTag.includes('BODY') && currActiveTag.includes('BODY');
}
function onMouseOut() {
if (!state.firstBlur && isFF() && isActiveElementChanged()) {
console.log('firefox first click');
onClick();
} else {
document.activeElement.blur();
top.focus();
}
state.isOverIFrame = false;
console.log(`onMouseOut`);
}
function onMouseOver() {
state.isOverIFrame = true;
console.log(`onMouseOver`);
}
function onIFrameClick() {
console.log(`onIFrameClick`);
if (state.isOverIFrame) {
onClick();
}
}
function onClick() {
console.log(`onClick`);
}
function findIFramesAndBindListeners() {
return Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName('iframe'))
.forEach(function (element) {
element.onmouseover = onMouseOver;
element.onmouseout = onMouseOut;
});
}
}

A colleague and I, we have a problem similar to that of Brian Trumpsett and found this thread very helpful.
Our kiosk has animations inside iframes and we need to track the page activity to set a timer.
As suggested here, rather than tracking the clicks, we now detect the focus change at each click and change it back
The following code is Okay on macOS with Safari and Chrome but does not work with FireFox (why?):
var eventListener = window.addEventListener('blur', function() {
if (document.activeElement.classList && document.activeElement.classList[0] == 'contentiFrame') {
refresh(); //function you want to call on click
setTimeout(function(){ window.focus(); }, 1);
}
window.removeEventListener('blur', eventListener );
});
The problem is that, on Windows, it works neither with Chrome nor with FireFox and thus, our kiosk is not functional.
Do you know why it is not working ?
Do you have a solution to make it work on Windows ?

As found there : Detect Click into Iframe using JavaScript
=> We can use iframeTracker-jquery :
$('.carousel-inner .item').each(function(e) {
var item = this;
var iFrame = $(item).find('iframe');
if (iFrame.length > 0) {
iFrame.iframeTracker({
blurCallback: function(){
// Do something when iFrame is clicked (like firing an XHR request)
onItemClick.bind(item)(); // calling regular click with right context
console.log('IFrameClick => OK');
}
});
console.log('IFrameTrackingRegistred => OK');
}
})

My approach was similar to that proposed by Paul Draper above. However, it didn't work in Firefox because activeElement did not update in time for the code to execute. So we wait a little bit.
This will also fire if you tab into the iframe. For my use case, it's fine, but you could filter for that keypress.
addEventListenerOnIframe() {
window.addEventListener('blur', this.onBlur);
}
onBlur = () => {
setTimeout(() => {
let activeElement = document.activeElement;
let iframeElement = document.querySelector('iframe');
if (activeElement === iframeElement) {
//execute your code here
//we only want to listen for the first time we click into the iframe
window.removeEventListener('blur', this.onBlur);
}
}, 500);
};

I believe you can do something like:
$('iframe').contents().click(function(){function to record click here });
using jQuery to accomplish this.