How do you copy an iframe's content to another iframe?

I'm trying to copy information in one iframe to another iframe with javascript. I am using firefox and information from my local domain so there are no security issues. However I'm just not getting it. Somebody please give me some help here, perhaps show me the right tag names. I'm tired of trial and error guessing. Are there any good books that deal with firefox, iframes, javascript, and asynchronous AJAX?

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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en" >

    <head>

      <title>Test1</title>

      <meta name="revision" content="$Id: $" />

      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

      <meta name="keywords" content=""/>

      <meta name="description" content=""/>

      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/local-stylesheet.css"/>

        <script>

            function copy_frame(argFrm1, argFrm2) {

                //window.frames["ifrm2"].document.body.innerHTML = "<p>hello</p>"; // works, frame has hello

                //window.document.body.innerHTML = "<p>hello</p>"; // works, replaces document with hello.

                window.document.body = window.frames["ifrm1"].document.body;  // this works!

                //window.frames["ifrm2"].document.body = window.frames["ifrm1"].document.body;  // This causes both to go blank.

            }

        </script>

    </head>
 
    <body>

        <div id="insert"></div>
 
      <div id="div4frm1">

          <iframe name="ifrm1" id="ifrm1" src="http://www.local.com" >

                use firefox

            </iframe>

      </div>
 
      <div id="div4frm2">

          <iframe name="ifrm2" id="ifrm2" src="" >

                Get firefox

            </iframe>

        </div>
 
        <div id="move">

            <INPUT TYPE="button" onClick="copy_frame(ifrm1, ifrm1);" value="copy" ID="b">

        </div>

    </body>

</html>

Sep 28 '06 #1

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//window.frames["ifrm2"].document.body = window.frames["ifrm1"].document.body;  // This causes both to go blank.
 

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 frames["ifrm2"].document.body.innerHTML=

frames["ifrm1"].document.body.innerHTML;

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