So...for example, I am trying to pull in an email "template" into an iframe as a "preview" for the user inside of an angularjs app. The iframe lives inside of the controller area (let's call it MainCtrl). The user would then be able to, using the form elements provided inside MainCtrl, update the preview based on their input. So for example let's say our template being pulled into the iframe looks something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
<style type="text/css">
.some {styles: here};
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{header}}</h1>
<p>{{body}}</p>
</body>
</html>
So inside our index.html (angularjs app), we would have form elements bound to {{header}} and {{body}}...
<div ng-controller="MainCtrl">
<input type="text" ng-model="header" placeholder="header text" />
<input type="text" ng-model="body" placeholder="body text" />
<iframe src="template.html" width="800" height="1500"></iframe>
</div>
is that possible? Is it possible for angularjs to update that information, and if so, how? I have something similar setup, and seems that it will not work. I cannot get the angularjs expressions to evaluate...all that shows up is {{body}}, etc...
So...for example, I am trying to pull in an email "template" into an iframe as a "preview" for the user inside of an angularjs app. The iframe lives inside of the controller area (let's call it MainCtrl). The user would then be able to, using the form elements provided inside MainCtrl, update the preview based on their input. So for example let's say our template being pulled into the iframe looks something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
<style type="text/css">
.some {styles: here};
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{header}}</h1>
<p>{{body}}</p>
</body>
</html>
So inside our index.html (angularjs app), we would have form elements bound to {{header}} and {{body}}...
<div ng-controller="MainCtrl">
<input type="text" ng-model="header" placeholder="header text" />
<input type="text" ng-model="body" placeholder="body text" />
<iframe src="template.html" width="800" height="1500"></iframe>
</div>
is that possible? Is it possible for angularjs to update that information, and if so, how? I have something similar setup, and seems that it will not work. I cannot get the angularjs expressions to evaluate...all that shows up is {{body}}, etc...
Share Improve this question edited Oct 1, 2013 at 21:11 kevindeleon asked Oct 1, 2013 at 21:04 kevindeleonkevindeleon 1,9243 gold badges18 silver badges30 bronze badges2 Answers
Reset to default 12If you run the iframe and the parent document from the same domain name (so that no Cross-Site-Scripting-Restrictions apply) then you can call a JavaScript function in the iframe which you could pass data.
What you might be missing is that the iframe is a separate document from the viewpoint of the browser. So if this iframe should run AngularJS code, you will need to make it a separate AngularJS application.
Here is a example where both the parent document and the iframe are separate AngularJS applications and the value of a text input in the parent is sent upon change to the iframe where the AngularJS application running there will put the data into the scope.
http://plnkr.co/edit/NZiKGZ9D99JyntLJ7Lxk
From the standpoint of the browser there is nothing special about angular - this is javascript, that's all that matters. So I would say the answer to your questions is - yes, it should work.
Of course the constrains of the same origin policy will apply. Also asynchronicity may present some problems, but other than that it just should work