Make animated HTML5 iframe from a client clickable

[sepalot]

Hi all,

We have received a HTML streaming banner (served on another domain) with a sound on mouse hover. A straight URL for a Halfpage Ad.
The only way I saw implementation was via an iframe.

To track clicks I put a <a href="{clickurl}https://www.target.com" /></a> tag above the iframe which has the size of the iframe (through CSS, display: block; position: absolute; width: 300px; height: 600px;). So it's basically a layover for the iframe. Now I can create my own URL and the correct target URL.

Problem is, that the mouse over to activate the sound doesn't work anymore. As the mouse is hovering over the field created by the <a href="" /> which coves the iframe below. Do i move the link behind the iframe the hover works but the click doesn't work of course.

I have experimented with Javascript onlick to append CSS classes like z-index, so that in the moment of the click the link would jump in the front of the iframe and the click would work and could be tracked. Also playing around with the style pointer-events: none; didn't work. Of course the hover sound works but not the click (no pointer events). Lastly iframes do not support Javascript onlick. Airball too! :/

So I didn't really find a practical approach how to wrap a link around an iframe with an add served from another domain, while still keeping the hover possibilities of the animated HTML5 banner active.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thank you.

Edited August 15, 2017 by sepalot

[andrewatfornax]

Hi @sepalot,

I think the issue here is that if the HTML5 content doesn't already have the click URL within it, then it's going to be hard to wrap click around it and still retain the features the banner is supposed to have.

Is there any reason why the click URL cannot be added by the advertiser?

[sepalot]

@andrewatfornax: Maybe it's integrated and it's a lack of my knowledge. Currently I can not address them as they are on vacation. Do you have a guess for me how it might be possible to address the clickurl inside an iFrame hosted on another server?

[andrewatfornax]

Hi @sepalot,

You won't be able to, as far as I know. iFrames are designed to separate cross-domain communications in that way, so, you won't be able to alter the content of the iFrame that you are loading up from the advertiser from your server.