How to access object & values within iframe'd document

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October 1st, 2009, 12:22 PM

ineloquucius

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How to access object & values within iframe'd document

For example if I do:

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<iframe id="myframe" src="http://mysite.com"></iframe>

and I want to set the value of the search field there, how do I access that field? I've already ignorantly tried:

Code:

document.getElementById('myframe').document.getElementByID('mytextArea').value

October 2nd, 2009, 02:08 PM

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Anyone?

October 2nd, 2009, 02:52 PM

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i would actually have to dig into this is see if I'm right (its been a long time for me and frames) but i believe you should just be able to refernce like:

document.frame.form.object.value

or document.frame.getelementById("object").value;

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October 3rd, 2009, 08:09 AM

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Strictly speaking, it's an iframe, not a frame that I'm working with...don't know if that makes a difference. But either way, I'm still unclear about how to refer to elements and values within that iframe.

I mean, I might have three iframes, how does the browser know which one?

October 4th, 2009, 08:10 AM

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once again, its been awhile, but as i remember frames and iframes are treated the same.

October 5th, 2009, 07:48 AM

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Wasn't picking on your frames knowledge, just figured I'd be specific in case it was relevant.

I still can't do this, in any case. Isn't there some way or some tool out there that can read my document and say "sure, that DIV there is referred to as document.html.body.div[3]"? DOM Inspector does not do this within iframes.

I've tried window.frames[0-2].whatever (="URL" or "bgColor" or anything that DOM inspector claimed has in fact some value assigned). I've been trying to "alert" these values on a mouseover and nothing happens. If I change the alert target to anything at the parent window level, no problem...including of course the iframe tag itself (not the contents of that frame) and attributes assigned to it.

Last edited by ineloquucius : October 5th, 2009 at 08:05 AM.

How to access object & values within iframe'd document

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