problem in getting innerText of iframe

BurhanKhan · August 20th, 2004, 05:25 AM

Hi:

I have a problem in getting innerText of iframe.
I use this script:

var inText = document.getElementById("f1").document.body.innerT ext;
alert(inText); // After using this script i receive innerText of whole page, but not iframe.

Then i use this:
var inText = f1.document.body.innerText;
alert(inText); // After using this i receive error message "Access Denied"

Then i use this:
var inText = document.frames("f1").document.body.innerText;
alert(inText); // After using this i receive same error message "Access Denied"

Can any body tell me what is going wrong?

Thanks
Burhan

ChrisScott · August 20th, 2004, 05:47 AM

Hi Burhan,

Is the content of the iframe in the same domain as the page that contains it?

If not, that is why you are getting "Access Denied".

HTH,

Chris

BurhanKhan · August 21st, 2004, 12:13 AM

Thanks for reply.

My iframe code is look like this:

<iframe name="f1" src="http://www.myhomepage.com" width="500" height="500">
Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.</iframe>

if that is the problem, then is here no way to get the innerText of http://www.myhomepage.com?

Burhan

joefawcett · August 23rd, 2004, 03:35 AM

The innerText of an iframe is the text in between the tags, not the document content of the frame. If the URL of the iframe is from the same server as the enclosing page and uses the same protocol you can access HTML content by:

Code:

var oFrame = window.top.frames["f1"];
var oDoc = oFrame.document;
alert(oDoc.documentElement.outerHTML);

Using document.getElementById enables you to get the element of the iframe, not the window itself.

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Joe

BurhanKhan · August 23rd, 2004, 10:59 AM

Thank Joefawcett for your comment.

But the problem is that, the URL of iframe is from another server.

Now how to access the innerText or outerHTML?

From
Burhan

Snib · August 23rd, 2004, 12:51 PM

From everything I've heard, this is not possible, and I've seen this question many times :-(

Snib

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joefawcett · August 24th, 2004, 10:55 AM

You could, assuming users allow it, instantiate the MsXml2.XmlHttp.4.0 class and grab the web page. There are examples in the Xml 4 parser sdk available from

http://msdn.com/xml

The link is on the right hand side.

Contrary to its name you can grab ordinary pages of HTML, not just XML ones.

If this is not good enough you would have use a proxy on the server to fetch the data.

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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)