Scroll to top of parent frame on iframe change?

Question

Is it possible to scroll(0,0) to the top of the parent page when the user browses in an iframe? For example, we have an iframe that is the entire height of the page with search

Answer 1

Actually, the onload event does appear to work when navigating within an iframe.

<iframe src="http://mysite.com" height="2392px" width="100%" name="searchFrame" onload="scroll(0,0);"></iframe>

Answer 2

As an alternative, you can have the iframe ask the parent frame to scroll to the top with

parent.scrollTo(0,0);

I haven't researched the official browser support for it, but it works in IE9, FF10, Chrome 17 and Safari 5.1.

Answer 3

<iframe onload="parent.location= 'http://mysite.com/page.html#nameofdivonthetopofpage';" ...