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Asked: 2026-05-12T11:26:48+00:00

Is there anyway to unload a page that has been loaded inside an iframe?

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Is there anyway to unload a page that has been loaded inside an iframe? I do not want to change the iframe src to a blank page if possible. I am basically looking for something that will do something like this $('#frameID').attr("src",""); except that code does not seem to clear the previously loaded page.

Is there a "unload" function that I can call which will reset the iframe so that it does not have any content loaded inside?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The other solutions use innerHTML, which won’t always work in XHTML. They also only clear document.body (anything in the <head> is still present). Here is a solution that uses the DOM:

    var frame = document.getElementById("myFrame"),
frameDoc = frame.contentDocument || frame.contentWindow.document;
frameDoc.removeChild(frameDoc.documentElement);

    This solution uses innerHTML:

    var frame = document.getElementById("myFrame"),
frameDoc = frame.contentDocument || frame.contentWindow.document;
frameDoc.documentElement.innerHTML = "";
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