iframe

[Jeff Thies]

I have an iframe (IE5):

<iframe name="frame1" id="frame1" src="some_sourc e">test</iframe>

that test appears outside the iframe, the src contents are in the iframe
though

I'd like to read the iframe.

var frame1=document .getElementById ('frame1').inne rHTML;

What I get is "test", not what the contents of the iframe actually is.

What have I done wrong?

Jeff

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: iframe

Jeff Thies <cyberjeff@spri ntmail.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> I have an iframe (IE5):
>
> <iframe name="frame1" id="frame1" src="some_sourc e">test</iframe>
>
> that test appears outside the iframe, the src contents are in the iframe
> though
>
> I'd like to read the iframe.
>
> var frame1=document .getElementById ('frame1').inne rHTML;
>
> What I get is "test", not what the contents of the iframe actually is.
>
> What have I done wrong?[/color]

You want to access the content page in the frame. That is a completely
different page, so its HTML is not part of the iframe element on this
page.

What you can do is either:

var frame1=document .getElementById ('frame1');
var iframeDocument = frame1.contentW indow ? frame1.contentW indow.document
: frame1.contentD ocument;
var root = iframeDocument. documentElement || iframeDocument. body;
var HTML = root.innerHTML;

or

var frame1Document = frames['frame1'].document;
var root = iframeDocument. documentElement || iframeDocument. body;
var HTML = root.innerHTML;

/L
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