IE7 and parent.location not working?

Camer · April 23rd, 2007, 08:08 AM

Hi,

In a script used by svg, I have a like like the following to go to a new web page:

Code:

 parent.location.href = newUrl;

This works fine in IE6. However, it has no effect in ie7 (not even a error message, or security message) It just does nothing.

I have noised when i do:

Code:

 alert(loc + "?" + entityName);
 parent.parent.location = loc + "?" + entityName;  alert(parent.parent.location.href);

values displayed by alert are not the same!!! parent.parent.location was not overwritten.

(I tried window.location=, window.assign(newUrl), parent.location.href, parent.location= .... none of it works, and I don't get an error message)

Project uses Frames.

Is this expected behavior in ie7? Is this a security thing? Where is there information on this?

Thanks,

MR

joefawcett · April 23rd, 2007, 11:44 PM

I believe the location property is read only if the page is in a different domain or uses a different scheme (https instead of http for example).

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Camer · April 24th, 2007, 09:30 AM

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I was able to work around the problem by having a script in my page that was called from svg.

You can call a script function that resides on the page from a svg script.

I just put a function like

Code:
gotoUrl(u) { parent.location.href = u; }
on the main page and called this from SVG.

Thank you very much for your suggestion , it puts me on a right tracks.

But it is a workaround, I still do not understand the couse of the problem.