Bubbling is specced to happen only through a single document tree. The iframe is a separate document tree, and so events that bubble through its tree terminate at the root of the iframe’s document and do not travel across the boundary into the host document.
// This example assumes execution from the parent of the the iframe
function bubbleIframeMouseMove(iframe){
// Save any previous onmousemove handler
var existingOnMouseMove = iframe.contentWindow.onmousemove;
// Attach a new onmousemove listener
iframe.contentWindow.onmousemove = function(e){
// Fire any existing onmousemove listener
if(existingOnMouseMove) existingOnMouseMove(e);
// Create a new event for the this window
var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
// We'll need this to offset the mouse move appropriately
var boundingClientRect = iframe.getBoundingClientRect();
// Initialize the event, copying exiting event values
// for the most part
evt.initMouseEvent(
"mousemove",
true, // bubbles
false, // not cancelable
window,
e.detail,
e.screenX,
e.screenY,
e.clientX + boundingClientRect.left,
e.clientY + boundingClientRect.top,
e.ctrlKey,
e.altKey,
e.shiftKey,
e.metaKey,
e.button,
null // no related element
);
// Dispatch the mousemove event on the iframe element
iframe.dispatchEvent(evt);
};
}
// Get the iframe element we want to track mouse movements on
var myIframe = document.getElementById("myIframe");
// Run it through the function to setup bubbling
bubbleIframeMouseMove(myIframe);
You can now listen for mousemove on the iframe element or any of its parent elements. As the event will bubble up as you would expect.