IE Issue: Submitting form to an iframe using javascript

Question

I was trying to create an iframe element using javascript, like so:

var iframe = document.createElement(\'iframe\');
iframe.setAttribute(\'name\', \'frame_x\         


        

Answer 1

You've hit a bug in Internet Explorer.

You CAN NOT set the name attribute of ANY element in IE using the standard DOM Method .setAttribute('name', value);

In IE (before version 8 running in IE8 standards mode) this method will not work to set the name attribute.

You need to use one of the following:

//A (any browser)
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.name = 'frame_x';

//B (only in IE)
var iframe = document.createElement('');

//D (using jQuery to set the attribute on an existing element)
$('iframe:first').attr('name','frame_x');