13574 2007-05-03 08:51:01 -0700 Moving an IFRAME within the DOM tree results in reloading of content 2014-06-05 14:37:15 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit Frames 523.x (Safari 3) Mac OS X 10.4 RESOLVED WONTFIX http://pilgrimwebdesign.com/iframe_move.html P2 Normal --- 15652 110007 1 jhurshman webkit-unassigned abarth amla70 ap bedney ddkilzer dimich dstorey dtrebbien m.goleb+bugzilla mike.sherov mitz mjs mkwst rboucher rniwa steffen.weber tolmasky tom webkit webkit oldest_to_newest 11403 0 jhurshman 2007-05-03 08:51:01 -0700 When an IFRAME is moved within its parent's DOM tree (e.g., to wrap it inside another element), its contents get reloaded, which can be undesireable. In addition, Safari will report that it is still trying to load something. The reduction at http://pilgrimwebdesign.com/iframe_move.html should demonstrate this. What should happen is that the IFRAME is simply moved, with no impact on the state of its contents. What does happen is that the load and unload events of the IFRAME fire each time the IFRAME is moved. In addition, the status bar reads: Loading "http://pilgrimwebdesign.com/iframe_move.html", completed 3 of n items where n starts at 4 and increments by one each time the IFRAME is moved. This occurs in Safari 2.0.4 as well as the nightly. 71785 1 webkit 2008-02-24 13:53:35 -0800 I cannot confirm the bug in Webkit r30549. 71787 2 mitz 2008-02-24 13:56:19 -0800 Still reproducible. 82682 3 tolmasky 2008-06-08 16:39:51 -0700 I get this all the time. 82686 4 mitz 2008-06-08 17:01:54 -0700 What do other browsers do? Do they distinguish between an atomic move and a removal followed by an insertion? 86461 5 ddkilzer 2008-07-20 06:41:08 -0700 If we document other browser's behavior (specifically MSIE and Firefox), it will be easily to know how to fix WebKit. 86471 6 ddkilzer 2008-07-20 08:37:39 -0700 Firefox 2 and 3 behave the same as WebKit/Safari (tested nightly build r35249). The iframe is reloaded as it moves in the DOM, and both load and unload events are called during this change. Opera 9.24 and 9.51 behave the same as WebKit/Safari, except that no unload events are called. MSIE 5.23 for Mac OS X, ironically, behaves "as expected". There are no load or unload events as it is moved within the DOM! Will test MSIE 7 next. 86472 7 ddkilzer 2008-07-20 08:49:48 -0700 (In reply to comment #6) > Firefox 2 and 3 behave the same as WebKit/Safari (tested nightly build r35249). > The iframe is reloaded as it moves in the DOM, and both load and unload events > are called during this change. > > Opera 9.24 and 9.51 behave the same as WebKit/Safari, except that no unload > events are called. > > MSIE 5.23 for Mac OS X, ironically, behaves "as expected". There are no load > or unload events as it is moved within the DOM! MSIE 7 behaves "as expected" in this case. There are no load or unload events as it is moved within the DOM. 174735 8 mitz 2009-12-23 22:02:35 -0800 See also bug 32848. 177005 9 bedney 2010-01-04 20:18:29 -0800 Mozilla still has the same problem, 5.5 years after first reported: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254144 Funny that IE is the only one that 'does the right thing' here - considering its usually the egregious offender. 252317 10 webkit 2010-07-15 22:14:34 -0700 There is now a work around for this bug, discussed in the comments to bug 32848. You can use adoptNode() to move the iframe around, which will suppress the reload. Eventually this workaround should work on Mozilla, too (although not soon: see http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.dom/browse_thread/thread/960efae1f2ca7bfb?pli=1) 839808 11 mike.sherov 2013-02-22 12:21:04 -0800 Just chiming in here. This rears its head as an issue in jQueryUI: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/9067 839810 12 rniwa 2013-02-22 12:25:20 -0800 We tried do support this use case via magic iframe and failed: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111361 Keeping iframe alive while it's being moved inside a document is too hard. 846791 13 mike.sherov 2013-03-04 13:29:32 -0800 I'm not sure this ticket should be closed. I'm not asking for magic IFRAME. There was work done in 32848 that references this ticket implementing something once that was fixed. The adoptNode workaround mentioned in comment #12 is depending on someone implementing something further. I could be reading it wrong, but it looks like there was work done for this. A jsfiddle seems to indicate that the IFRAME still reloads: http://jsfiddle.net/jNLWw/ Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding. 846888 14 rniwa 2013-03-04 15:03:30 -0800 (In reply to comment #13) > > A jsfiddle seems to indicate that the IFRAME still reloads: http://jsfiddle.net/jNLWw/ That's the expected behavior. We have fixed this bug by adding a support for magic iframe but we had to remove that feature because it introduced lots of security vulnerabilities and other kinds of bugs. Such as, we're not going to provide a way to move an iframe inside a DOM without reloading the content.