Hi...

We put up websites for people and have been using FreeTextBox for years as
the editor. Mostly we've never had any trouble with it, but dropping it in a
certain client's pages has been a nightmare. All of a sudden IE 7 is
throwing Access Denied errors at many of the places where FTB tries to tweak
its iframe scratch pad that we've never seen before.

I found a couple of google threads mentioning that if script running in the
parent window does

document.domain = 'foo.com';

then all iframes on the page must also set themselves to the same domain or
things won't play well together.

I tried several ways to make the FTB iframe set its domain to the same
value as the parent window but it didn't help.

I tried
<iframe onload="javascript:document.domain='foo.com'" ...>
<iframe src="/body.html" ...> (where body.html just had
<script language="javascript">
document.domain=foo.com';
</script> in it)

but neither helped the access denied error messages.

After a lot of jiggering with the host file, I co-opted the partner's script
source and commented out the document.domain setting and went back to no src=
for the FTB iframe, and things worked fine - So that is evidence that the
problem is tied to the document.domain setting in the client script.

How *does* one work with iframes in a page that script has farted on by
tweaking document.domain?

Thanks
Mark



Thanks
Mark


<textarea name="FTB_body" id="FTB_body" style="display: none;"></textarea>
<iframe id="FTB_body_Editor" name="FTB_body_Editor" title="Editor"
height="350px" width="100%"
onBlur="FTB_CopyHtmlToHidden('FTB_body');"></iframe>

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
function IsOkToLeave() {
if (typeof FTB_body_Editor != 'undefined' &&
FTB_body_Editor.document.body.innerHTML.match(/^(<br>)?\s*$/) == null)
{return 'Leaving the page now will erase your message text. Do you want to
continue?';}}
window.onbeforeunload = IsOkToLeave;

FTB_Initialize('FTB_body');
</script>

This IE behavior is really ****ed annoying.

I put a src url on the iframe, and in the page it points to I have it
setting document.domain to the same value as the parent. The script also
does an alert to show the value of document.domain.

The I put a 5 second delay in the parent before it tries to touch the child
iframe at all. It also does an alert to show the parent's document.domain.

The 2 values are the same but I'm still getting the Access Denied error
trying to touch anything in the child iframe.

In short, it just doesn't look like there's any way for the parent to deal
with a child iframe if anybody touches document.domain.

I've seen lots of discussion on the net about this saying "just make sure
the document.domains are the same" but no examples.

Has anyone gotten themselves out of this hole?

Thanks
Mark


"Mark" wrote:

> Hi...
>
> We put up websites for people and have been using FreeTextBox for years as
> the editor. Mostly we've never had any trouble with it, but dropping it in a
> certain client's pages has been a nightmare. All of a sudden IE 7 is
> throwing Access Denied errors at many of the places where FTB tries to tweak
> its iframe scratch pad that we've never seen before.
>
> I found a couple of google threads mentioning that if script running in the
> parent window does
>
> document.domain = 'foo.com';
>
> then all iframes on the page must also set themselves to the same domain or
> things won't play well together.
>
> I tried several ways to make the FTB iframe set its domain to the same
> value as the parent window but it didn't help.
>
> I tried
> <iframe onload="javascript:document.domain='foo.com'" ...>
> <iframe src="/body.html" ...> (where body.html just had
> <script language="javascript">
> document.domain=foo.com';
> </script> in it)
>
> but neither helped the access denied error messages.
>
> After a lot of jiggering with the host file, I co-opted the partner's script
> source and commented out the document.domain setting and went back to no src=
> for the FTB iframe, and things worked fine - So that is evidence that the
> problem is tied to the document.domain setting in the client script.
>
> How *does* one work with iframes in a page that script has farted on by
> tweaking document.domain?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
>
> <textarea name="FTB_body" id="FTB_body" style="display: none;"></textarea>
> <iframe id="FTB_body_Editor" name="FTB_body_Editor" title="Editor"
> height="350px" width="100%"
> onBlur="FTB_CopyHtmlToHidden('FTB_body');"></iframe>
>
> <script language=JavaScript>
> <!--
> function IsOkToLeave() {
> if (typeof FTB_body_Editor != 'undefined' &&
> FTB_body_Editor.document.body.innerHTML.match(/^(<br>)?\s*$/) == null)
> {return 'Leaving the page now will erase your message text. Do you want to
> continue?';}}
> window.onbeforeunload = IsOkToLeave;
>
> FTB_Initialize('FTB_body');
> </script>
>