Question

I have two iframes on a page and one makes changes to the other but the other iframe doesn’t show the change until I refresh. Is there an easy way to refresh this iframe with jQuery?

<div class="project">
  <iframe id="currentElement" class="myframe" name="myframe" src="http://somesite.com/something/new"></iframe>
</div>

Answer 1

If the iframe was not on a different domain, you could do something like this:

document.getElementById(FrameID).contentDocument.location.reload(true);

But since the iframe is on a different domain, you will be denied access to the iframe’s contentDocument property by the same-origin policy.

But you can hackishly force the cross-domain iframe to reload if your code is running on the iframe’s parent page, by setting it’s src attribute to itself. Like this:

// hackishly force iframe to reload
var iframe = document.getElementById(FrameId);
iframe.src = iframe.src;

If you are trying to reload the iframe from another iframe, you are out of luck, that is not possible.