Question

I have a php page that has multiple iframes on the page.

these iframes contain a button if you will. When someone clicks on the “button” im firing javascript to refresh another frame on the page with id=xxx this works fine. the problem is i want to be able to refresh multiple frames on the page they all cant have the same ID value so How could this be done.

<iframe id="12345"></iframe>
<iframe id="12345"></iframe>
<iframe id="12345"></iframe>

This works on a single iframe (i know you cant have multiple ids the same on one document.) The idea is want to do something like this.

parent.document.getElementById('12345').contentWindow.location.reload();

Sorry for the sloppy example, ive been awake far to long. 🙂

Answer 1

This is what I ended up using at it works great! I made the iframe as follows:

<iframe name="ifwXXXX"></iframe>

Then I was able to use the below code to get all the iframes that had the same name and loop through them refreshing each.

function refreshwant(ifid,lid){
    parent.document.getElementById('pfid'+lid+'').contentWindow.location.reload();
    var x = parent.document.getElementsByName('ifw'+ifid+'');
for(var i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
{
    x[i].contentWindow.location.reload();    
}
}

Thanks for all the help hope this can help someone as well.!