Injecting inline svg with ajax and reloading browser issue - svg

I'm using the following script to inject a svg in my html body:
Meteor.startup(function() {
$('body').prepend('<div id="svg"></div>');
$('#svg').load('images/svg/sprite/sprite.svg');
});
This works as intended but things go wrong when I manually reload the page in my browser. But only when there's a parameter in my route. When there's no paramater in my route I can refresh all I want without any problems.
Router.route('/test') // all OK!
Router.route('/test/:_id') // current template gets rendered multiple times and app finally crashes
I can't seem to wrap my head around this. Why is this happening? And how to fix this?

The load path needs to be absolute.
$('#svg').load('/images/svg/sprite/sprite.svg');

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Select2 multi-value: How to refresh

I'm using ajax in Rails 4 to load this form. Using select2-rails gem, it renders properly when the document loads:
After I click update, it loads the view partial:
but when I click on edit, the styling doesn't show up, and only the default bootstrap styling shows up:
How do I get this last image to show the select2 styling from the first image? I think it has to do with how select2 styling is loaded when the document is first loaded, but would appreciate a solution. Here is my stylesheet below:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#e9").select2();
})
Allen:
Hello again by the way...
I had a similar problem in rails 4 and it had to do with turbolinks.
link: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/working_with_javascript_in_rails.html#how-turbolinks-works
In your JS file change your document ready to the function name below, then add the two commands just below the function, which are also below. This may be your issue as well because your page initially loads correctly, however when turbolinks is working, it tries to load only previously loaded files to quicken the load process and may skip your document ready function. Let me know if this helps... (Jake - DBC).
var select2Gem = function(){
$("#e9").select2();
};
$(document).ready(select2Gem);
$(document).on('page:load', select2Gem);

JavaScript function does not work with webbrowser.document.body.innerhtml

I'm using a web browser for showing some data.
When I change my web browser control content with this code:
webbrowser.document.body.innerhtml=htmlbody;
My JavaScript function does not work.
I believe that changing innerHTML in that way breaks up the DOM, so the JavaScript will not function any more.
I had the same problem. If you are trying to make changes to the body, the easiest way I found would be through injecting JavaScript into your page, without changing the HTML in this way.
i got the solution
i put the j query function in body and my problem solved:D

chrome content script to access and modify window

I am writing a chrome extension that is a 'content script'
I want to inject a google map on to a webpage.
Problem:
It appears that i have no way to add functions on to the window object, thus i cannot define a callback function for googlemaps to call when it loads.
How do people usually go about mucking with the window?
--
someone on the interwebs suggested i do this:
You can do this easily with a JavaScript URL: window.location =
"javascript:obj.funcvar = function() {}; void(0);"
but when i did this i got an access denied error. it seems like a lot of search results about this problem are outdated.
Content scripts have a separate JavaScript execution ennvironment from the page they run on, so they cannot alter JS variables in the page itself. However, the content script shares the DOM with the page, so you can inject a <script> tag into the DOM which will be loaded and run in the actual page's execution environment.

Rails 3.1 loads scripts before the page is loaded. How to bind functions to page elements?

Putting this code in
$('#hello').click ->
alert 'hello'
in posts.js.coffee in vanilla Rails 3.1 app does not work. The javascript is compiled and loaded before the page so the function isn't bound to its element. There are easy solutions, like manually loading the js on the page rather than using the asset pipeline, or using JQuery .live functions, but it seems like this code should work out of the box. Am I missing something??
I might be pointing out the obvious here, but have you (in jQuery) tried this:
$(function(){
//your code
$('#hello').click(function(){
alert("hello");
});
});
or
$(document).ready(function(){ [...] });
These (atleast under normal circumstances) should prevent any javascript inside from doing anything until the DOM has been loaded.
Hope this helps

Preventing iframe caching in browser

How do you prevent Firefox and Safari from caching iframe content?
I have a simple webpage with an iframe to a page on a different site. Both the outer page and the inner page have HTTP response headers to prevent caching. When I click the "back" button in the browser, the outer page works properly, but no matter what, the browser always retrieves a cache of the iframed page. IE works just fine, but Firefox and Safari are giving me trouble.
My webpage looks something like this:
<html>
<head><!-- stuff --></head>
<body>
<!-- stuff -->
<iframe src="webpage2.html?var=xxx" />
<!-- stuff -->
</body>
</html>
The var variable always changes. Although the URL of the iframe has changed (and thus, the browser should be making a new request to that page), the browser just fetches the cached content.
I've examined the HTTP requests and responses going back and forth, and I noticed that even if the outer page contains <iframe src="webpage2.html?var=222" />, the browser will still fetch webpage2.html?var=111.
Here's what I've tried so far:
Changing iframe URL with random var value
Adding Expires, Cache-Control, and Pragma headers to outer webpage
Adding Expires, Cache-Control, and Pragma headers to inner webpage
I'm unable to do any JavaScript tricks because I'm blocked by the same-origin policy.
I'm running out of ideas. Does anyone know how to stop the browser from caching the iframed content?
Update
I installed Fiddler2 as Daniel suggested to perform another test, and unfortunately, I am still getting the same results.
This is the test I performed:
Outer page generates random number using Math.random() in JSP.
Outer page displays a random number on the webpage.
Outer page calls iframe, passing in a random number.
Inner page displays a random number.
With this test, I'm able to see exactly which pages are updating, and which pages are cached.
Visual Test
For a quick test, I load the page, navigate to another page, and then press "back." Here are the results:
Original Page:
Outer Page: 0.21300034290246206
Inner Page: 0.21300034290246206
Leaving page, then hitting back:
Outer page: 0.4470929019483644
Inner page: 0.21300034290246206
This shows that the inner page is being cached, even though the outer page is calling it with a different GET parameter in the URL. For some reason, the browser is ignoring the fact that the iframe is requesting a new URL; it simply loads the old one.
Fiddler Test
Sure enough, Fiddler confirms the same thing.
(I load the page.)
Outer page is called. HTML:
0.21300034290246206
<iframe src="http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.21300034290246206" />
http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.21300034290246206 is called.
(I navigate away from the page and then hit back.)
Outer page is called. HTML:
0.4470929019483644
<iframe src="http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.4470929019483644" />
http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.21300034290246206 is called.
Well, from this test, it looks as though the web browser isn't caching the page, but it's caching the URL of the iframe and then making a new request on that cached URL. However, I'm still stumped as to how to solve this issue.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop the web browser from caching iframe URLs?
This is a bug in Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356558
Try this workaround:
<iframe src="webpage2.html?var=xxx" id="theframe"></iframe>
<script>
var _theframe = document.getElementById("theframe");
_theframe.contentWindow.location.href = _theframe.src;
</script>
I have been able to work around this bug by setting a unique name attribute on the iframe - for whatever reason, this seems to bust the cache. You can use whatever dynamic data you have as the name attribute - or simply the current ms or ns time in whatever templating language you're using. This is a nicer solution than those above because it does not directly require JS.
In my particular case, the iframe is being built via JS (but you could do the same via PHP, Ruby, whatever), so I simply use Date.now():
return '<iframe src="' + src + '" name="' + Date.now() + '" />';
This fixes the bug in my testing; probably because the window.name in the inner window changes.
As you said, the issue here is not iframe content caching, but iframe url caching.
As of September 2018, it seems the issue still occurs in Chrome but not in Firefox.
I've tried many things (adding a changing GET parameter, clearing the iframe url in onbeforeunload, detecting a "reload from cache" using a cookie, setting up various response headers) and here are the only two solutions that worked from me:
1- Easy way: create your iframe dynamically from javascript
For example:
const iframe = document.createElement('iframe')
iframe.id = ...
...
iframe.src = myIFrameUrl
document.body.appendChild(iframe)
2- Convoluted way
Server-side, as explained here, disable content caching for the content you serve for the iframe OR for the parent page (either will do).
AND
Set the iframe url from javascript with an additional changing search param, like this:
const url = myIFrameUrl + '?timestamp=' + new Date().getTime()
document.getElementById('my-iframe-id').src = url
(simplified version, beware of other search params)
After trying everything else (except using a proxy for the iframe content), I found a way to prevent iframe content caching, from the same domain:
Use .htaccess and a rewrite rule and change the iframe src attribute.
RewriteRule test/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+).html$ /test/index.php?idEntity=$1&token=$2 [QSA]
The way I use this is that the iframe's URL end up looking this way: example.com/test/54/e3116491e90e05700880bf8b269a8cc7.html
Where [token] is a randomly generated value. This URL prevents iframe caching since the token is never the same, and the iframe thinks it's a totally different webpage since a single refresh loads a totally different URL :
example.com/test/54/e3116491e90e05700880bf8b269a8cc7.html
example.com/test/54/d2cc21be7cdcb5a1f989272706de1913.html
both lead to the same page.
You can access your hidden url parameters with $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]
To get the iframe to always load fresh content, add the current Unix timestamp to the end of the GET parameters. The browser then sees it as a 'different' request and will seek new content.
In Javascript, it might look like:
frames['my_iframe'].location.href='load_iframe_content.php?group_ID=' + group_ID + '&timestamp=' + timestamp;
I found this problem in the latest Chrome as well as the latest Safari on the Mac OS X as of Mar 17, 2016. None of the fixes above worked for me, including assigning src to empty and then back to some site, or adding in some randomly-named "name" parameter, or adding in a random number on the end of the URL after the hash, or assigning the content window href to the src after assigning the src.
In my case, it was because I was using Javascript to update the IFRAME, and only switching the hash in the URL.
The workaround in my case was that I created an interim URL that had a 0 second meta redirect to that other page. It happens so fast that I hardly notice the screen flash. Plus, I made the background color of the interim page the same as the other page, and so you notice it even less.
It is a bug in Firefox 3.5.
Have a look..
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279048
I set iframe src attribute later in my app. To get rid of the cached content inside iframe at the start of the application I simply do:
myIframe.src = "";
... somewhere in the beginning of js code (for instance in jquery $() handler)
Thanks to
http://www.freshsupercool.com/2008/07/10/firefox-caching-iframe-data/
I also had this problem in 2016 with iOS Safari. What seemed to work for me was
giving a GET-parameter to the iframe src and a value for it like this
<iframe width="60%" src="../other/url?cachebust=1" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I also met this issue, after trying different browsers, and a ton of trial and error, I came up with this solution, which works well in my case:
import { defineComponent } from 'vue'
import { v4 as uuid } from 'uuid'
export default defineComponent({
setup() {
return () => (
// append a uuid after `?` to prevent browsers from caching it
<iframe src={`https://www.example.com?${uuid()}`} frameborder='0' />
)
},
})
If you want to get really crazy you could implement the page name as a dynamic url that always resolves to the same page, rather than the querystring option?
Assuming you're in an office, check whether there's any caching going on at a network level. Believe me, it's a possibility. Your IT folks will be able to tell you if there's any network infrastructure around HTTP caching, although since this only happens for the iframe it's unlikely.
Have you installed Fiddler2?
It will let you see exactly what is being requested, what is being sent back, etc. It doesn't sound plausible that the browser would really hit its cache for different URLs.
Make the URL of the iframe point to a page on your site which acts as a proxy to retrieve and return the actual contents of the iframe. Now you are no longer bound by the same-origin policy (EDIT: does not prevent the iframe caching issue).

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