Create DOM object holding an external page

[vhg119]

Is there a way to create a DOM document object to hold the contents of
an external html?

I have two pages:
content.html contains some content.
index.html would like to access the contents of a particular <div> with
an id of "important" within content.html.

how would I do this? I know I can hack around and load the
content.html in an iframe embedded in index.html. Then, I can make the
iframe not visible. But, If theres a better way to do this (an easier
way), I'd much rather take that approach.

Vince

[jshanman]

vhg119 wrote:

Is there a way to create a DOM document object to hold the contents of
an external html?

I have two pages:
content.html contains some content.
index.html would like to access the contents of a particular <div> with
an id of "important" within content.html.

how would I do this? I know I can hack around and load the
content.html in an iframe embedded in index.html. Then, I can make the
iframe not visible. But, If theres a better way to do this (an easier
way), I'd much rather take that approach.

Vince

If content.html is valid xhtml(xml), then you could parse the document
like an xml file.

http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+parse+xml

The other alternitive is to have a server page parse the document and
return the content you want. You could do this dynamicly using the
XmlHttpRequest object, or even simpler using
var s = document.createElement("script");
s.src = "http://www.u.com/getpage.php?u=<url>&d=<id of div>";
the getpage file could open the resource in $u and search for a div
with an id of $d

- JS

[Martin Honnen]

vhg119 wrote:

how would I do this? I know I can hack around and load the
content.html in an iframe embedded in index.html. Then, I can make the
iframe not visible. But, If theres a better way to do this (an easier
way), I'd much rather take that approach.

Use the iframe, there are no pure in memory text/html DOM
implementations currently in browsers that would allow loading from a URL.
Iframes on the other hand are quite well supported.

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