Comments on: Get rid of the IE iframe “click”

By: dragon2000gh

dragon2000gh — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:35:23 +0000

Try to avoid using IFrame because of the search engines, wrong navigating etc

By: Web Design NY

Web Design NY — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:50:38 +0000

Oh, com’on, I’m sure they had a reason for that… Just like when you get “the” Blue screen!

By: Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:01:24 +0000

@Simon

While this is true, you will still get the “click” sound when setting the src attribute on the IFrame, which was the point of my article.

By: Simon Jia

Simon Jia — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:01:43 +0000

Another method I’ve tried was using document.write to insert the iframe. When you click on the back button, it doesn’t do the “click” crap.

By: Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:27:16 +0000

@Captain Yoinksac

True, but sometimes, you don’t have the option of not using IFrames. IFrames can be very useful to sandbox third party content for instance.

By: Captain Yoinksac

Captain Yoinksac — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:36:04 +0000

Or… don’t use dirty IFRAMEs?

By: Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:37:59 +0000

@Tiago

There is a fork based on the user agent (see the setIFrameSrc function) On non-IE browsers (and that includes Firefox obviously), I only set the IFrame src attribute, so your point is invalid.

By: EmEhRKay

EmEhRKay — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:17:02 +0000

I am slowing beginning to hate Microsoft.

By: Tiago Albineli Motta

Tiago Albineli Motta — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:14:50 +0000

This solution has a problem in Firefox, sometimes this browser thinks the iframe is not loaded and the loading animation on the tabs dont stop.

By: Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:59:26 +0000

@Robbert

The bgsound trick does not seem to work (at least not on IE7) Moreover, the bgsound tag is non standard, so it may be better not to use it.

By: Robbert Broersma

Robbert Broersma — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:33:46 +0000

I don’t know if it still works, but the solution I used way back in 2001, was setting a 0-byte .wav as background sound:

bgsound src=”zerobyte.wav” loop=”-1″

By: Benoit

Benoit — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:59:57 +0000

It made me think to Macromedia Flash loader (don’t remember its real name) used to load flash objects without having to click for using it in internet explorer.
It uses document.write to create the embed and object tags after the content rendering is started, so Internet explorer don’t lock the flash objects until clicked.

By: David Bloom

David Bloom — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:52:59 +0000

What sucks is, this won’t add an entry to the browser history. So you still must have the click if you want to support back/forward button navigation…