Load event for iFrame not fired in IE

Question

Why is the load event not fired in IE for iFrames?

Please take a look at this example.

Work perfectly as expected in FF and Chrome, but IE fails

Answer 1

IE might have already loaded the content (and fired the event) before you add the handler. I found that when I statically specified the iframe src attr, and added $(x).load event handlers via jquery, firefox (3.6.28) triggered my handlers but IE (8.0.6001.18702) didn't.

I ended up adjusting my test program so that it set the iframe src via javascript after adding the $(x).load handler. My $(x).load handler was called at the same points in IE and Firefox (but note a handler added via iframe onload attribute behaved differently between IE and FF) . Here is what I ended up with:

... and here was the Firefox "log":

i1/eb_mce_iframe_content.html actually loaded i1:

Fred the fox.

/eb_mce_iframe_content.html actually loaded x:

Fred the fox.