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Bong

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Greeting,
I searched a little but couldn't find anything I was able to understand. My goal is load some data into a frame (iframe), manipulate it a little, and then replace the contents of the frame with this (now manipulated) text. To that end, I'm only at the point of trying, without success, to get the contents of the frame at all:
Code: 
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
iframe test
<iframe id="if1" src="file://h:/java/zlnch.txt" align="right">
</iframe>
<div id="d1"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
[red]document.getElementById("d1").innerHTML=if1.document.body.innerHTML[/red]
</script>
</body></html>
does not work

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Your text file has a body tag?

Probably not. Which is why it's not able to be recognised by the document object model.

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OK. I was just flailing. I found that code in an example on the Web. My text file is a simple CSV file. There are no tags at all. So I guess my question is, what is the proper syntax to return a string containing the contents of the iframe (which in turn is the contents of the text file)?

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Such as this.
[tt]
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
iframe test
<iframe id="if1" src="file://h:/java/zlnch.txt" align="right">
</iframe>
<div id="d1"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
[blue]function doit() {[/blue]
document.getElementById("d1").innerHTML=[red]document.getElementById("if1").contentWindow[/red].document.body.innerHTML
[blue]}
window.onload=doit;[/blue]
</script>
</body></html>
[/tt]
 
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Perfect, tsuji.
Thanks.

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