IE7 and parent.location not working?

[camer38]

Hi,

In a script used by svg, I have a like like the following to go to a new web page:

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parent.location.href = newUrl;

This works fine in IE6. However, it has no effect in ie7 (not even a error message, or security message) It just does nothing.
I have noised when i do:

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alert(loc + "?" + entityName);
parent.parent.location = loc + "?" + entityName;
alert(parent.parent.location.href);

values displayed by alert are not the same!!! parent.parent.location was not overwritten.

(I tried window.location=, window.assign(newUrl), parent.location.href, parent.location= .... none of it works, and I don't get an error message)

Is this expected behavior in ie7? Is this a security thing? Where is there information on this?

Thanks,
MR

[spinal007]

why are you using parent? are you using frames?

[camer38]

Hi

I use frames and I regret that it could not be changed. It is a part of a bigger application.
I would be grateful for any suggestion or workaround.

Cheers,
MR

[spinal007]

Very strange...
I found this...
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermai...ry/003915.html
...which doesn't apply to IE but suggests there may be security restrictions when executing cross-frame js.

have you tried having a 'receiving' function in the target frame?
I mean, instead of...
parent.parent.location='test1.html'
...try...
parent.parent.GO('test1.html');

Then in the parent.parent document, have a function like this:
function GO(loc){
window.location = loc;
}

that way, if there's a restriction on changing the location of a separate frame, you work around it by sending a parameter to that frame and the code within the target frame will change its own location.

does that make sense?

[camer38]

I was able to work around the problem by having a script in my page that was called from svg.

You can call a script function that resides on the page from a svg script.

I just put a function like

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gotoUrl(u) { parent.location.href = u; }

on the main page and called this from SVG.

Thank you very much for your suggestion , it puts me on a right tracks.

But it is a workaround, I still do not understand the couse of the problem.

[spinal007]

It's more than just a work around, it's best practice. Having some code in the frame you want to control implies the frame is allowing you to control it - if you see what I mean...
follow this iead and you should not run into trouble again...