How to avoid IE message bar when page contains JavaScript? - javascript

I am trying to insert following code to all my pages:
<script language="javascript">
if (top.location == self.location)
{
top.location = '../index.html'
}
</script>
When I have this page and try to run the page from IE 8 then I am being displayed a yellow bar on top of my page which asking me to allow the plugin.
No other browser (firefox/opera/chrome/safari) does this.
This is annoying to click this every time person visits page. How to disable this?
I just hope I won't have to use:
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<script language="javascript">
if (top.location == self.location)
{
top.location = '../index.html'
}
</script>
<!--<![endif]-->

I think you're talking about local execution of javascript, so see the answer in this discussion about Mark of the web (MOTW): ActiveX Content in a local web page, and "the mark of the web"
see also MSDN reference for futher information:

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meta refresh redirect to top frame

I have the following code:
<html>
<head>
<title>title of this stuff</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
if (top != self) top.document.title = document.title;
</script>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; URL=javascript:window.open('certainpage.html','_top');">
</head>
<body>
Body of this page
</body>
</html>
and this doesn't work.
I've googled for this and come to the same conclusion everywhere: this should work.
But it doesn't. Can anyone help me out why this page isn't:
1. refreshing as long as I have the javascript in there (and yes, js is enabled in my browser)
2. refreshing to the new page in the top frame
Any help would be appreciated!
Javascript won't work in the refresh meta tag like that.
As you're using javascript anyway, keep it simple like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
window.top.location = 'http://domain.tld/whatever/';
</script>
But there's also a better (because smarter) way to do it. This doesn't require you to hard-code the URL for each page. It checks if the page is topmost and if not, if calls the page's URL to the top:
<script type="text/javascript">
if(window.top.location != window.location)
{
window.top.location.href = window.location.href;
}
</script>
And if you would prefer to completely avoid using javascript (which some users will have disabled), there's also an even simpler way to do it. Add the following to your head section and all links on that page will open "topmost":
<base target="_top">
All you have to do is to choose one of these three options. All of them should get you going just fine.

No-Javascript Detection Script + Redirect

I would like to write a script that detects whether the user has javascript disabled, and if yes, redirect them to another page (let's say mysite.com/enablejavascript)
However, I have no idea where to start! Thanks SO.
Gdoron mentioned noscript already. Together with meta refresh¹ you can redirect users if they have JavaScript disabled.
A JavaScript redirect can be done with location.replace(URL).
<head>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://example.com/without-js" />
</noscript>
<script>
location.replace('http://example.com/with-js');
</script>
</head>
Example of noscript+meta refresh: http://pastehtml.com/view/bsrxxl7cw.html
1) Mind the drawbacks section of the Wikipedia article!
Meta refresh tags have some drawbacks:
If a page redirects too quickly (less than 2-3 seconds), using the "Back" button on the next page may cause some browsers to move back to the redirecting page, whereupon the redirect will occur again. This is bad for usability, as this may cause a reader to be "stuck" on the last website.
A reader may or may not want to be redirected to a different page, which can lead to user dissatisfaction or raise concerns about security.
How do you want to write a script when java-script is disabled... ?
It's can not be done. You can show a message when javascript is disabled with <noscript>.
<noscript> tag on MDN:
The HTML NoScript Element () defines a section of html to be inserted if a script type on the page is unsupported or if scripting is currently turned off in the browser.
You should combine HTML redirect in a noscript element. I found this JavaScript redirection generator. Here is your sample code:
<!-- Pleace this snippet right after opening the head tag to make it work properly -->
<!-- This code is licensed under GNU GPL v3 -->
<!-- You are allowed to freely copy, distribute and use this code, but removing author credit is strictly prohibited -->
<!-- Generated by http://insider.zone/tools/client-side-url-redirect-generator/ -->
<!-- REDIRECTING STARTS -->
<link rel="canonical" href="https://yourdomain.com/"/>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=https://yourdomain.com/">
</noscript>
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script type="text/javascript">var IE_fix=true;</script><![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript">
var url = "https://yourdomain.com/";
if(typeof IE_fix != "undefined") // IE8 and lower fix to pass the http referer
{
document.write("redirecting..."); // Don't remove this line or appendChild() will fail because it is called before document.onload to make the redirect as fast as possible. Nobody will see this text, it is only a tech fix.
var referLink = document.createElement("a");
referLink.href = url;
document.body.appendChild(referLink);
referLink.click();
}
else { window.location.replace(url); } // All other browsers
</script>
<!-- Credit goes to http://insider.zone/ -->
<!-- REDIRECTING ENDS -->
Try this: If java script is disabled then display a php link
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("<button type='button' onclick='somefunction()' >Some Text</button>");
</script>
<noscript>
<?php echo "<a href='redirectfile.php'>Some Text</a>"; ?>
</noscript>

Prevent webpage dialog from spawning new browser window?

I have an open web page dialog. From there, what I'd like to do is when the user clicks on a link, refresh the contents of the dialog with modified query string parameters. The problem I am running into is that rather than refresh the same web page with new parameters, a new browser window pops up.
Here is the page used to open the dialog:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function ShowPopup() {
var popWinFeatures = "dialogWidth: 800px;dialogHeight:600px;center:yes;status:no;scroll:no;resizable:yes;help:no";
window.showModalDialog("webPageDialog.html","PopUpWin",popWinFeatures);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Click For Modal
</body>
</html>
and this is the code within the webpage dialog that attempts to refresh the webpage with changed query string parameters:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script src="scripts/jquery-1.6.4.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var queryString = "?ab=123";
var newURL = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + "/" + window.location.pathname;
$('#testLink').attr('href', newURL+queryString);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
Please Click Me
</body>
</html>
I've also tried using window.open as well as setting window.location. And I've also tried setting window.location.href but the result was the same.
the new browser window displays exactly what I expect. It's just not in the same window.
Thoughts?
Since posting this question, I came up with two possible solutions. In case anyone comes after me and wants to know what I ended up doing, here you go!
The first was just to make the popup non-modal. Removing the modal piece gave me the behavior exactly like I expected it. This didn't work in my situation however for a different reason... It seems that the session cookie was not carried over which in this web app, would cause the log-in page to be displayed before then displaying the correct page. This struck me as odd, but ran out of time to investigate why that was happening.
Second (and this is the solution i ended up going with) was to use an iframe, and display what i needed within the iframe. Definitely not my favorite, but it works!

JavaScript access parent window from popup windows

I am trying to code this for hours and still couldn't do it. It keep tell me "Permission Denied".
Here is what I am trying to accomplish. This pretty hard to explain please follow the example below.
For example. domain111.com and domain222.com.
When I am on domain111.com i click on the popup link , it will pop-up the domain111.com/popup.html then it redirect me to domain222.com. On this domain222.com it will redirect to couple pages before it redirect back to domain111.com with the result. I want to send the result from domain111.com to domain111.com.
The process is like below.
Domain111-popup to-->Domain111-redirect-->Domain222-redirect xxx Domain222 pages then redirect to-->-Domain111---SEND to parent window->Domain11
Here is my code.
File name 1.hml on domain111.com
<script type="text/javascript">
function IamParent() {
alert('I am the parent of this window')
}
function PopUP() {
window.open("http://domain222.com/2.htm", 'ALpop').focus();
}
</script>
<body>
<a href="#void(0);" onclick="PopUP();" >Click</a>
</body>
File name 2.html on domain222.com
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://domain111.com/3.htm?Result=Yes" />
</head>
Filename 2.htm on domain111.com
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.IamParent(); //execute the function from the same domain111.com/1.htm
</script>
Please don't suggest AJAX or web request because it will not work with this case.
Thanks for reading.
Parent windows in other domains are inaccessible due to a security restriction requirement in the JavaScript engines. This applies to all browsers. It is a cross-site scripting attack prevention that cannot be disabled.

Changing parent window's URL from IFrame

I have a situation where I have web apps on two different servers, where App1 contains App2 in an IFrame. Any links in App2 can have target="_parent" attribute, which allow those links to open in the top window. However, I can't find any way to get the same behavior in Javascript. I found this page, which claims that the child frame can call javascript on the parent frame using parent.foo(), but that doesn't seem to work in IE8 or FF3.5. I found this SO question which explains how this security model works. But it seems odd that I can't do in Javascript what I can do with a simple <a> tag. Is there any workaround to this at all? I know about window.postMessage, but (as far as I know) this only works in Firefox.
Example
server1/test.html
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function myCallback(foo) {
alert(foo);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="http://server2/test2.htm" width="400" height="150"></iframe>
</body></html>
server2/test2.html
<html><body>
<script>
function clickit() {
parent.document.location = "http://www.google.com"; //not allowed
parent.myCallback("http://www.google.com"); //not allowed
}
</script>
<p>This should be in an iFrame!</p>
<p>normal link (works)</p>
<p>javascript link</p>
</body></html>
OK I did more investigation, and it appears that postMessage works in all modern browsers, even IE (with the caveat that IE has a slightly different way of doing it). Here's how I got it to work (tested on WinXP in IE8, FF3.5, Chrome 3.0, Safari 4 beta, Opera 9.64):
server1/test.html
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
window.attachEvent("onmessage", receiveMessage);
else
window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);
function receiveMessage(e) {
if(e.origin == "http://server2") //important for security
if(e.data.indexOf('redirect:') == 0)
document.location = e.data.substr(9);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="http://server2/test2.htm" width="400" height="150"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
server2/test2.htm
<html><body>
<script>
function clickit() {
parent.postMessage('redirect:http://www.google.com', 'http://server1');
}
</script>
<p>This should be in an iFrame!</p>
<p>normal link</p>
<p>javascript link</p>
</body></html>
A simple thing you can do is:
execute following from JavaScript code of iframe page
top.location = "https://www.google.co.in/";
this will change the location of window's URL to https://www.google.co.in/.
One more thing -This strategy can also be useful when you do not want that any one can inframe your site
just write the above code in document ready part.
No, and for good reason. If you need this, then you must run all communication through one of the two servers; for example, have server1 act as as a proxy for all requests for "server2/test2.html".
If both parent and iframe are on subdomains under the same domain, you may be able to do something with the document.domain property. If both body and iframe are treated as being from the same origin, changing the location should be possible; I haven't tried this myself. Some reading here
If the frames are on the same domain, you should be able to access the parent frame. Otherwise no, it's a security issue.
The only workaround that springs to mind would be to use AJAX to update a file on each of the servers, then check the contents of the opposite file server-side. You could do the same thing using a single database, if you allow connections from external domains.
This is all kind of overkill though, when you could simply pop-up a link in the frame and tell users to click it to continue.

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