How can i get to the textarea in Gmail Draft.

[HopfZ]

I am trying to make a bookmarklet to enlarge textarea in Gmail. But I
can't get to the textarea.
When you are composing a message in Gmail, the page has two frames. the
first frame has name "main". That frame contains a textarea named
"msgbody" in which you compose messages.

I have tried with Firebug getElementsByTa gName and getElementsByNa me
but all fails.
self.main.docum ent.getElements ByTagName('text area') returns empty list.
self.main.docum ent.getElements ByName('msgbody ') also returns empty
list.
I suspect that it is because the textarea is buried deep in the DOM
tree.
The dom path from the main frame to the textarea is:
/html/body/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]/form/table/tbody/tr[5]/td/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]/textarea

However the dom path from the main frame to the first div element is
/html/body/div
and self.main.docum ent.getElements ByTagName('div' ) returns a nonempty
list.

[Martin Honnen]

HopfZ wrote:

I have tried with Firebug getElementsByTa gName and getElementsByNa me
but all fails.
self.main.docum ent.getElements ByTagName('text area') returns empty list.

Then what you think is a textarea is not one or that textarea is in a
different document.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[HopfZ]

Martin Honnen wrote:

HopfZ wrote:

I have tried with Firebug getElementsByTa gName and getElementsByNa me
but all fails.
self.main.docum ent.getElements ByTagName('text area') returns empty list.

Then what you think is a textarea is not one or that textarea is in a
different document.

Thank you for your answer.
I found that there was an iframe between the main frame and the
textarea.
The name of the iframe is v1 or v2 depending on situations.

// get to the composing textarea in Gmail. (new message or a saved
draft)
var textArea1 = self.main.v1.do cument.getEleme ntById('ta_0');
var textArea2 = self.main.v2.do cument.getEleme ntById('ta_comp ose');
var theComposingTex tArea = textArea1 ? textArea1 : textArea2;