Accessing Div in IFrame

[theone3000]

Hi All,
I am trying to access a div in an iframe(the div is the first object within the body tag, no table, text, etc), i walked the dom tree in the "Dom Inspector" in mozilla, but cannot make sence of what javascript method to use and how to access the innerhtml of a div!.
how do i do this?, is there any tools that are freely avilable on the net to do this?
thanks all!
:D

[acoder]

Welcome to thescripts.

To access the innerHTML of a div, just write the following:

var str = document.getElementById('divid').innerHTML;

where 'divid' is the id of your div.

See this page and this one for more info. on iframes and the DOM.

If you need more help, post again.

[theone3000]

Not realy help,
if i want to grab the innerHTML of a div on the main page, that would work, but in an iframe, it doesn't work,gotta walk the dom tree, i used document.getElementById("MyFrame").contentDocument but the problem it returns the item as a html object, what and how do i access it now? i have tried all the normal combinations with no success!, and that is for netscape, what about IE?

[theone3000]

Hi All, got some more data,
I noticed that when i refresh/load the page, it can access the iframe's contents, and even change the bg color, but when it loads a page, it is denied access, can a page its self block access?, how could it do this?, and, is there a freeware tool that can be implemented so i can watch/track/record each action by the page being loaded into the iframe so as i can find a work around?
thanks all

[theone3000]

when i posted the last item, i had a fair idea that it would not get answered, and would baffle most/all, but i found the answer, for all!, thanks to the kind people at Uni Massachusetts Amherst, and here it is! http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/pe_beta/pe/protexpl/notes/browbarr.htm

my problem is with firefox, and i believe that there are probably other security issues too.

Now to do a work-around!

[baden2500]

when i posted the last item, i had a fair idea that it would not get answered, and would baffle most/all, but i found the answer, for all!, thanks to the kind people at Uni Massachusetts Amherst, and here it is! http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/pe_beta/pe/protexpl/notes/browbarr.htm

my problem is with firefox, and i believe that there are probably other security issues too.

Now to do a work-around!

If there are different servers (main page and iframe) you can't access iframe-DOM from main page and viceversa.