Subj : Re: A question about iframe
To   : Akira
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon Jun 28 2004 12:15 pm

Akira wrote:
> Hello all,

Wrong newsgroup, see headers.  Cc'ing some folks who can say more. 
Keeping a reference to the document object across a window or iframe 
unload/load should work; at least, it did in Nav2-4 for windows and frames.

/be

> 
> I'd like to ask a question about iframe.
> When my page is onload, I define a reference object
> var referenceObj = document.getElementById('iframe').contentWindow.document;
> 
> And then I use that object to get the innerHTML property.
> referenceObj.body.innerHTML. There is no any problem yet.
> 
> However, after I change the iframe.src dynamically, I can't use the
> referenceObj. I have to define/update this again in order to get the
> innerHTML property by this object.
> I have tested in IE6 sp1, it doesn't need this step. But Mozilla needs.
> IMHO, referenceObj is just a reference object, it should work even I
> have change the iframe.src.
> Is it bug or feature?
> Can anyone explain this?
> Thanks in advance.

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