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javascript frame navigation in ie11 with a pdf

I have a simple web page where 1 frame displays a pdf and another a menu bar.
<iframe src="bar.html" name="menu" ></iframe>
<iframe src="doc.pdf" name="itempane" ></iframe>
Using chrome I can navigate from the menu bar to the parent and back down to the frame containing the pdf in order to print it
var pWindow = window.parent;
pWindow['itempane'].print();
Attempting to do the same in IE11 gives an Invalid calling object error.
you can see this at http://www.abhrdev.co.uk/main.html
What am I doing wrong / what is IE doing differently?
Cheers
Updated.....
I think I have proved that this is not a javascript coding issue but related to the pdf handling in IE. With the following page
Print PDF<br/>
Print HTML
<iframe src="bar_1.html" name="menu" ></iframe>
<iframe src="doc.pdf" name="pdfpane" ></iframe>
<iframe src="doc.html" name="htmlpane" ></iframe>
and this function
function printFromMain(paneName) {
var pWindow = window[paneName];
pWindow.focus();
pWindow.print();
}
the printing of the html page works but not the pdf the pWindow.focus() gives Invalid Calling Object - any insight into why that might be greatfully recieved

After trying several things, I finally go this to work in IE11:
1) use an object tag instead of iframe
2) run focus() / print() directly on the element
3) run after a timeout, to make sure everything in is loaded. There may be a better way (like using some event listener) to do this, as the timeout time needs to be fairly long for it to work properly
setTimeout(function () {
var contentThingy = document.getElementById('itempane');
contentThingy.focus();
contentThingy.print();
}, 4000);
Object (with a specified id) instead of iframe:
<object id="itempane" ... ></object>
Note: doesn't work in chrome. One of the other variations in the other answers (i.e. using ContentWindow) may.

Try actually using the window.frames to get the frameList and reference it by the frame name that way.
var pWindow = window.parent; //reference the parent from the iframe
var ifr = pWindow.frames.itempane; //get the pdf frame from the frame list
ifr.focus();
ifr.print();

Try this
<iframe src="bar.html" name="menu" ></iframe>
<iframe src="doc.pdf" ID="itempane" ></iframe>
var otherPane = parent.document.getElementById("itempane");
otherPane.focus(); // OR
otherPane.print(); // OR
var doc = otherPane.contentWindow || otherPane.contentDocument;
doc.focus();
doc.print();

Targeting an iframe with Js/jQuery BEFORE the DOM loads

In order to prevent an iframe from flashing, I'm setting its visibility inside a setTimeout (the CSS is set to visibility:hidden)
setTimeout(function(){
$n('#myFrame').css('visibility','visible');}, 750);
Works great, although when I load subsequent locations inside the frame, the flashing behavior returns since the visibility is already set.
What I'd like to do is create a function that targets the iframe BEFORE the DOM/page has loaded to set the visibility to hidden again and then setTimeout.
Keep in mind that this script will run on the ServiceNow platform, meaning some options are limited (can't load in document head, etc.)
It's sort of like a reverse document.ready(). Is this even possible?
Thanks for any leads,
Paco

Just set it in your source:
<iframe style="display: none;"></iframe>
Then un-hide it when you want to.

$('buttonToChangeTheIframePage').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$('#myFrame').css('visibility','hidden');
$('#myFrame').delay(1000).css('visibility','visible');
});
This assumes you are loading locations from OUTSIDE the iframe - anything within the iframe (like a link) will still trigger this behaviour.
EDIT
This is actually better and will work for all circumstances (I think - just check no silly errors as not tested)
<iframe id="myFrame" src="http://www.google.com/" onLoad="hideUnhide();"></iframe>
function hideUnhide(){
$('#myFrame').css('visibility','hidden').delay(1000).css('visibility','visible');
}

Use addAfterPageLoadedEvent(func) in js_include_doc_type.js
<iframe id="gsft_main" style="visibility: hidden;">
anything ....
<script>
addAfterPageLoadedEvent(function() {
$j('#gsft_main').css('visibility','visible');
});
</script>
</iframe>

iframe created with jquery prepends absolute URL with current domain

I am creating an iframe using jQuery to a "cross-site" URL. This works properly in Firefox but IE is prepending the parent pages domain to the iframes src URL.
An example would be if I am creating the iframe (with jQuery):
<iframe src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>
The page that IE would try to load is:
http://www._mysite_.com/http://www.google.com
If I statically in the HTML create the iframe everything works fine. It is only when I make it using JS that it loads the wrong page.
I suppose I would understand if this was intentional cross-site protection that IE has built in, but I am wondering if that is the case, or if I am missing something.
Is this default behavior for IE? If anyone has a workaround it would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT:
Generated code is:
<iframe id="myIframe" width="500" height="400" frameborder="0" src="http://www._website_.com/aaa/bbb/ccc">
I tested the generated code at static HTML and it did work properly in IE.
EDIT 2:
This is how I am creating the iframe:
jQuery('.signUp').live('click', function() {
var url = 'http://www._website_.com'+$(this).attr('href');
var thisModal='<div id="dialogRes" class="windowG"><iframe id="iframeG" frameborder="0" width="500" height="400" src="#"></iframe></div>';
jQuery('body').append(thisModal);
jQuery('#iframeG').prop('src', url);
return false;
});
On this line:
jQuery('#iframeG').prop('src', url);
I have tried attr() as well as removing it all together and just putting the url in the src tag of the iframe. Nothing seemed to work.

The problem is that in IE, the href attribute is always returned as an absolute URL. So if you had
<a id="demo" href="bar/baz">...</a>
Then your on your website http://mydomain.com/foo:
jQuery('#demo').attr('href') == 'http://mydomain.com/foo/bar/baz';
Two options to work around this are to either parse out the (possible) full domain from the href attribute, or to use a different custom attribute just to hold the target address/path (eg data-href).

How to add a click event to p elements in iframe (using jQuery)

How to add a click event to <p> elements in iframe (using jQuery)
<iframe frameborder="0" id="oframe" src="iframe.html" width="100%" name="oframe">

There's a special jQuery function that does that: .contents(). See the example for how it's works.

Your best best bet is to invoke the iframe AS LONG AS it's part of your domain.
iframe.html
<html>
<head>
<script>
window.MyMethod = function()
{
$('p').click();
}
</script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
And then use
document.getElementById('targetFrame').contentWindow.MyMethod();
To invoke that function.
another way is to access the iframe via window.frames.
<iframe name="myIframe" src="iframe.html"/>
and the javascript
child_frame = window.frames['myIframe'].document;
$('p',child_frame).click(function(){
alert('This click as bound via the parent frame')
});
That should work fine.

Wanted to add this, as a complete, copy-paste solution (works on Firefox and Chrome). Sometimes it is easy to miss to remember to call the event after the document, and so the iframe, is fully loaded:
$('#iframe').on('load', function() {
$('#iframe').contents().find('#div-in-iframe').click(function() {
// ...
});
});
The iframe must be on the same domain for this to work.

By giving a reference to the IFrame document as the second parameter to jQuery, which is the context:
jQuery("p", document.frames["oframe"].document).click(...);

To access any element from within an iframe, a simple JavaScript approach is as follows:
var iframe = document.getElementById("iframe");
var iframeDoc = iframe.contentDocument || iframe.contentWindow;
// Get HTML element
var iframeHtml = iframeDoc.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];
Now you can select any element using this html element
iframeHtml.getElementById("someElement");
Now, you can bind any event you want to this element. Hope this helps. Sorry for incorrect English.

JQuery and frames - $(document).ready doesn't work

I have a page, with some code in js and jQuery and it works very well. But unfortunately, all my site is very very old, and uses frames. So when I loaded my page inside a frame, $(document).ready() doesn't fire up.
My frameset looks like:
<frameset rows="79,*" frameBorder="1" frameSpacing="1" bordercolor="#5996BF" noresize>
<frame name="header" src="Operations.aspx?main='Info.aspx'" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" noresize frameborder="0">
<frame name="main" src="Info.aspx" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="auto" noresize frameborder="0">
</frameset>
My page is loaded into the main frame. What should I do?

I have tried the method mentioned in another comment:
$("#frameName").ready(function() {
// Write you frame on load javascript code here
} );
and it did not work for me.
this did:
$("#frameName").load( function() {
//code goes here
} );
Even though the event does not fire as quickly - it waits until images and css have loaded also.

I know this is an old topic. But to help some of you who reach this page, here is my solution:
$($("#frameName")[0].contentWindow.document).ready(function() {
// Write you frame onready code here
});

I assume this is a similar problem I was having with DOMContentLoaded in an iframe.
I wrote a blog post about it.

If you want to fire the onload event for your frames, then follow these steps:
Assign an id and name to each <frame> tag. Make sure both id and name attributes value is same.
Use the following code to fire the onload event of the frame:
$("frameName").ready(function() {
// Write your frame onload code here
}

The following also worked for me:
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
$(window.parent.frames[0].document).ready(function() {
// Do stuff
});
</script>
The [0] indicates that it is the first frame in the document, [1] would be the second frame, and so on. This is particularly nice if you do not have control over the mark-up, and it is still utilizing document ready.

Have you tried to put the jQuery code inside the Info.aspx page?

Not sure what you're trying to do, but I have an even older classic asp app that operates out of frames, and I just recently added jQuery functionality and it is working great. The $(document).ready() works fine within a frame, but if you wish to reference the DOM in another frame, you'll have to use the Frame's onload event to let you know when the frame's DOM is loaded. Admittedly, I used iFrames, but the concept should be the same.

I have worked a long time with this post... here is my solution.
test.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script>
document.write('<frameset><frame name="frame_content" id="frame_content"></frame></frameset>');
$('#frame_content').attr('src', 'test2.html');
$('#frame_content').load(function()
{
if('${"#header"}' != '') {
$("#header", frame_content.document).remove();
}
});
if($('#frame_content').complete) $('#frame_content').trigger("load");
</script>
</head>
</html>
test2.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">You will never see me, cause I have been removed!</div>
</body>
</html>

I don't know if it is the best solution, but when I remove $(document).ready() and keep its body, everything works perfectly.

No need to modify the markup. Just fix the selector. It should be:
$("frame[name='main']").ready(function(){..});
not
$("#frameName").ready(function(){..});
Note: it seems the jQuery ready event fires multiple times. Make sure that is OK with your logic.

This answer may be late, but this reply may help someone like me...
This can be done via native Javascript code -
ifrm2 = var ifrm2 = document.getElementById('frm2');
if (ifrm2.contentDocument.readyState == 'complete') {
//here goes the code after frame fully loaded
}
//id = frm2 is the id of iframe in my page

There is no reason for $(document).ready() not to be called.
Be sure your page contains an include to jquery.js. Try to do a simple test with an empty HTML page and just an alert to see if there is another problem.
If you are trying to use this inside the HTML page that contains the frame's definition, keep in mind that there is no document there, you will have to use the