iframeTracker is a jQuery plugin that allow to track clicks on iframes.
This is very useful to :
- track clicks on Google Adsense (google uses iframes to display ads)
- track clicks on Facebook Like buttons
- track clicks on Youtube embed video player
- ... and any other iframe !
Try it now : demo.
Since it's impossible to read iframe content (DOM) from the parent page due to the same origin policy, tracking is based on the blur event associated to a page/iframe boundary monitoring system telling over which iframe is the mouse cursor at any time.
Match the iframe elements you want to track with a jQuery selector and call iframeTracker with a callback function that will be called when a click on the iframe is detected :
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$('.iframe_wrap iframe').iframeTracker({
blurCallback: function(event) {
// Do something when the iframe is clicked (like firing an XHR request)
}
});
});You can also just pass a function, that will be then registered as the blurCallback :
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$('.iframe_wrap iframe').iframeTracker(function(event) {
// Do something when the iframe is clicked (like firing an XHR request)
});
});jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$('.iframe_wrap iframe').iframeTracker({
blurCallback: function(event) {
// Do something when iframe is clicked (like firing an XHR request)
// You can know which iframe element is clicked via this._overId
},
overCallback: function(element, event) {
this._overId = $(element).parents('.iframe_wrap').attr('id'); // Saving the iframe wrapper id
},
outCallback: function(element, event) {
this._overId = null; // Reset hover iframe wrapper id
},
_overId: null
});
});You can remove a tracker attached to an iframe by calling .iframeTracker() with either false or null :
$('#iframe_red_1 iframe').iframeTracker(false);
$('#iframe_red_2 iframe').iframeTracker(null);Full tutorial available here (it's in French).
Tested on jQuery 1.4.4 to 1.11.0, 2.1.4 & 3.2.1.
With npm :
npm install jquery.iframetrackerWith bower :
bower install jquery.iframetrackerThis plugin doesn't work on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, because this hardware uses a touchscreen instead of a mouse as click input. This design makes the boundary monitoring trick ineffective.
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