1074549 - modifications to the DOM inside a new iframe disappear

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 543435

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[jonathantneal]

Attachment: iframe.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.124 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I appended an iframe to a document.
I added content to that iframe's document.


Actual results:

The iframe displayed no content.


Expected results:

The iframe should have displayed its content.

Comment 1

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Is this about the initial about:blank and the next about:blank?

Comment 2

[jonathantneal]

I think so, yes. I have observed that while content either flashes briefly or never appears at all, the listeners on the iframe's window persist, which makes me think the browser is loading one document and then dumping it for another.

In the end, the spec isn't being followed, nor is the behavior consistent with other browsers.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/the-iframe-element.html

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a known issue with initial about:blank.  Waiting until the load event on the iframe fires before modifying its DOM is a workaround if one is needed for now...