To bad we still have to make an effort to fix that broken piece of #($&*#$ browser ,but your solutions is great, and makes it behave just as all proper browsers.

But you made my daY !

Here is my final workaround (IE6, IE7). You need to insert the objet in the elements, and then re-affect the name. This seems to record the iframe

- frame = createElement(‘iframe’
- frame.id = “my_new_frame”;
– frame.name = ” my_new_frame”;
- insert element in the document
– (the iframe is known as a document element), re-set the name:

if (document.frames) {
document.frames['my_new_frame'].name = “my_new_frame”;
}

Thank u very very much…

try
{
window.frames['upload_iframe'].name=”upload_iframe”;
window.frames['upload_iframe'].id=”upload_iframe”;
}
catch (e) {}

I’m using jQuery to generate iframe tag, and I’ve tried to use attr(‘name’, iframe_id), but I had a problem described in this post.

Now I’m using
var iframe = $(“”);

And it works in IE fine, thank you maaaan for help me to resolve this problem.

I used compact solution for this hole, but it was not working for IE7. Every time when I was trying to upload, new popup was adding and uploading goes there. After I read your comments and changed scripts, but now processing don’t works on IE7 too. Now page just redirects to action page in same frame.

Here is script:

/**
*
* AJAX IFRAME METHOD (AIM)
* http://www.webtoolkit.info/
*
**/

AIM = {
frame : function(c) {
var n = ‘f’ + Math.floor(Math.random() * 99999);

var i;
try {
i = document.createElement(”);
} catch (ex) {
i = document.createElement(‘iframe’);
}

i.onload = function() {
AIM.loaded(n);
}

i.id = n;
i.name = n;
i.width = 0;
i.height = 0;
i.marginHeight = 0;
i.marginWidth = 0;

document.body.insertBefore(i, document.body.firstChild);

if (c && typeof(c.onComplete) == ‘function’) {
i.onComplete = c.onComplete;
}
return n;
},
form : function(f, name) {
f.setAttribute(‘target’, name);
},
submit : function(f, c) {
AIM.form(f, AIM.frame(c));
if (c && typeof(c.onStart) == ‘function’) {
return c.onStart();
} else {
return true;
}
},
loaded : function(id) {
var i = document.getElementById(id);
if (i.contentDocument) {
var d = i.contentDocument;
} else if (i.contentWindow) {
var d = i.contentWindow.document;
} else {
var d = window.frames[id].document;
}
if (d.location.href == “about:blank”) {
return;
}
if (typeof(i.onComplete) == ‘function’) {
i.onComplete(d.body.innerHTML);
}
}
}

Can you help me here?

Thanks,
Gevorg

By the way, if anyone wonders what the official standard has to say about this, check this document: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/

Page 60 in the pdf version clearly states that HTMLIFrameElement.name should not be readonly.