# Designmode iFrame action alerts - please help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designmode-iframe-action-alerts-please-help/233246
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [July 21, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designmode-iframe-action-alerts-please-help/233246 "2007-07-21T22:17:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Shard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Shard)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designmode-iframe-action-alerts-please-help/233246/1 "2007-07-21T22:17:26Z")
Hi all, thanks for taking the time to read this.
I have an auto-generated iframe and i need to know when a user clicks inside the iframe and also when they select some text so that I can display suitable editing buttons (if you havent already guessed - its an rte) 🙂
On the page is a simple div which has the iframe appended to it, so Iam assuming that I need to add the event handlers to the iframe creation code …
```auto
function def(){
var testframe = document.createElement("iframe");
testframe.setAttribute('name', 'textEditor');
testframe.setAttribute('id', 'textEditor');
testframe.style.width = '740px';
testframe.style.height = '240px';
testframe.style.background = '#ffffff';
if (testframe.addEventListener){
testframe.addEventListener("load",function(e){this.contentWindow.document.designMode = "on";}, false);
} else if (testframe.attachEvent){
testframe.attachEvent("load", function(e){this.contentWindow.document.designMode = "on";});
}
testframe = document.getElementById('editor').appendChild(testframe);
textEditor.document.designMode="on";
textEditor.document.open();
textEditor.document.write('');
textEditor.document.write('');
textEditor.document.close();
textEditor.focus();
}
```
Any help greatly appreciated.