Lets say I have the following webpage

www.fake/sample.html

I could pass some parameters to that webpage, like so

www.fake/sample.html?count=10&format=gold

this page has an iframe in it, I would like to pass any parameters that the main page gets to the enclosed iframe. If the main page is called like so

www.fake/sample.html?count=10&format=gold

the iframe in the sample page should be called with those same paramters.

<iframe src="www.fake/framed_page.html?count=10&format=gold"></iframe>

What is the easiest way to do this?

Lets say I have the following webpage

www.fake./sample.html

I could pass some parameters to that webpage, like so

www.fake./sample.html?count=10&format=gold

this page has an iframe in it, I would like to pass any parameters that the main page gets to the enclosed iframe. If the main page is called like so

www.fake./sample.html?count=10&format=gold

the iframe in the sample page should be called with those same paramters.

<iframe src="www.fake./framed_page.html?count=10&format=gold"></iframe>

What is the easiest way to do this?

• javascript
• html

• FYI, your slashes are the wrong way round – Adam Hopkinson Commented May 13, 2010 at 10:51
• Fixed the slashes. Also, i don't have access to a server-side language – Janak Commented May 14, 2010 at 14:11

2 Answers 2

In the javascript of the child document (framed_page.html) you can call window.parent.location to get the location object of sample.html. Call window.parent.location.search to get the query string

The easiest and most reliable way (because it doesn't require JavaScript to work) would be to use a server-side language to pose the correct iframe URL from the QUERY_STRING server variable.

In PHP:

<iframe src=
    "www.fake.\framed_page.html?<?php echo $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]; ?>">
</iframe>