Detect failure to load contents of an iframe

Question

I can detect when the content of an iframe has loaded using the load event. Unfortunately, for my purposes, there are two problems with this:

• If there

Answer 1

Have a id for the top most (body) element in the page that is being loaded in your iframe.

on the Load handler of your iframe, check to see if getElementById() returns a non null value. If it is, iframe has loaded successfully. else it has failed.

in that case, put frame.src="about:blank". Make sure to remove the loadhandler before doing that.