prevent iframe content reload on hide in firefox

Question

In my webapplication I hide an iframe using jquery hide() function. Surprisingly firefox reload the content of iframe when the iframe is hidden. Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? I also tried to hide the iframe setting css style display to 'none'. Same result.

The script work as expected in opera.

I'm using firefox 3.5.1

Answer 1

Don't know about that bug, but one possible solution is to set height and width to 0px instead, maybe?

Answer 2

Some say the solution might be in providing a different id or name attribute for each IFRAME = but it did not work in my Case (FF 3.6+)

Another possible solution is to make sure the iframe's content is not taken from the browsers cache.

this can be done by concatenating a randomizing string to the the iframe's source URL, making sure the content will never come from the cache.

all in all, its a bug that should be fixed by the Mozilla team!..