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(){
			// Do something when the iframe is clicked (like firing an XHR request)
		}
	});
});

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
	$('.iframe_wrap iframe').iframeTracker({
		blurCallback: function(){
			// 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){
			this._overId = $(element).parents('.iframe_wrap').attr('id'); // Saving the iframe wrapper id
		},
		outCallback: function(element){
			this._overId = null; // Reset hover iframe wrapper id
		},
		_overId: null
	});
});

Full tutorial available here : http://www.finalclap.com/tuto/track-iframe-click-jquery-87/ (it's in French).

With npm :

npm install jquery.iframetracker

With bower :

bower install jquery.iframetracker

This 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 useless.

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