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JavaScript Linking to a different page from inside an iframe

thesoundsmith

thesoundsmith

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I have a page in a WordPress site that opens into an IFrame to accommodate a music player I wrote years ago. It all works fine excerpt when trying to close the window. .The anchor or onclick is inside the iframe, so the new window (front page) opens in the same iframe that held the music player and the URL is still the radio page. I need the "dashradio" window to close and the front page to reopen
Here's the line:
HTML: 
<a id="btn6"  title="Close DashRadio" href="https://www.davidkempton.com"></a>

The iframe in the WordPress page looks like this:
HTML: 
<iframe src="https://www.davidkempton.com/radioREV.htm" name="dashRadio" height="870px" width="100%" title="DashRadio" align="middle" scrolling="no" style="border:none;"></iframe>

The page in operation: The DashRadio page - if you click on a Menu item, it works as expected, ONLY when you select the red 'Close' button does this occur. I COULD simply remove the button, I suppose, but it is part of the image...
Thanks.
 
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thesoundsmith said:
Hi, and thanks for the reply.
No, that is the problem I need to rectify. I need it to react exactly as if I had hit the leftmost menu 'Home' button - close itself and open the home screen.
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The easiest way to do this would be to add the attribute target="_top" to that anchor tag, like this:
HTML: 
<a id="btn6"  title="Close DashRadio" href="https://www.davidkempton.com" target="_top"></a>
This ensures that the top most iframe, in this case it would be the actual page itself, gets redirected to the link in the href attribute. Otherwise, if you really need to do it in javascript, you can just add these few lines to your existing js code:

JavaScript: 
var closeBtn = document.querySelector('a#btn6');
closeBtn.addEventListener('click', (event)...
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thesoundsmith said:
I have a page in a WordPress site that opens into an IFrame to accommodate a music player I wrote years ago. It all works fine excerpt when trying to close the window. .The anchor or onclick is inside the iframe, so the new window (front page) opens in the same iframe that held the music player and the URL is still the radio page. I need the "dashradio" window to close and the front page to reopen
Here's the line:
HTML: 
<a id="btn6"  title="Close DashRadio" href="https://www.davidkempton.com"></a>

The iframe in the WordPress page looks like this:
HTML: 
<iframe src="https://www.davidkempton.com/radioREV.htm" name="dashRadio" height="870px" width="100%" title="DashRadio" align="middle" scrolling="no" style="border:none;"></iframe>

The page in operation: The DashRadio page - if you click on a Menu item, it works as expected, ONLY when you select the red 'Close' button does this occur. I COULD simply remove the button, I suppose, but it is part of the image...
Thanks.
Click to expand...
thesoundsmith said:
I have a page in a WordPress site that opens into an IFrame to accommodate a music player I wrote years ago. It all works fine excerpt when trying to close the window. .The anchor or onclick is inside the iframe, so the new window (front page) opens in the same iframe that held the music player and the URL is still the radio page. I need the "dashradio" window to close and the front page to reopen
Here's the line:
HTML: 
<a id="btn6"  title="Close DashRadio" href="https://www.davidkempton.com"></a>

The iframe in the WordPress page looks like this:
HTML: 
<iframe src="https://www.davidkempton.com/radioREV.htm" name="dashRadio" height="870px" width="100%" title="DashRadio" align="middle" scrolling="no" style="border:none;"></iframe>

The page in operation: The DashRadio page - if you click on a Menu item, it works as expected, ONLY when you select the red 'Close' button does this occur. I COULD simply remove the button, I suppose, but it is part of the image...
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Hi there,

So I was testing your site, and when I click on the "close" button, the main page opens up inside of the iframe itself...is that the intended functionality?
 
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thesoundsmith said:
Hi, and thanks for the reply.
No, that is the problem I need to rectify. I need it to react exactly as if I had hit the leftmost menu 'Home' button - close itself and open the home screen.
Click to expand...
The easiest way to do this would be to add the attribute target="_top" to that anchor tag, like this:
HTML: 
<a id="btn6"  title="Close DashRadio" href="https://www.davidkempton.com" target="_top"></a>
This ensures that the top most iframe, in this case it would be the actual page itself, gets redirected to the link in the href attribute. Otherwise, if you really need to do it in javascript, you can just add these few lines to your existing js code:

JavaScript: 
var closeBtn = document.querySelector('a#btn6');
closeBtn.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
    event.preventDefault();
    window.top.location.href = '/';
});

The code above gets the button from DOM, sets up an event listener that listens for a click event. Once the button is clicked, the default functionality of the page redirecting inside the iframe is disabled and the page itself gets redirected to main page, "/", with 'window.top.location.href'
 
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