Getting the HTML in an IFRAME

BenRussell · Jun 24, 2003

I have an IFRAME in my website.

I want to be able to capture the HTML in the IFRAME (that points to another page on my websiet) when a form is submitted. How can I do this?

- Ben

overyde · Jun 24, 2003

Need a little more info. Do you need to capture the info to a database or send it via email?

Is it details in a form?

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joezapp · Jun 24, 2003

Not exactly sure what you're after but something like this should be possible in javascript:

var vHTML = $iframename.document.location.innerHTML;

This will pull all the inner html into a variable for you to post in a form (ie4+). However its not always as simple as that - netscape will doubtless work differently...

Explain in more depth what it is you want to do.

Joe

BenRussell · Jun 25, 2003

I used the javascript code above:

var vHTML = $iframename.document.location.innerHTML;

But it does not capture the HTML inside the <head> tag and it does not include the document's closing tags (</html>).

- Ben

joezapp · Jun 25, 2003

var vOHTML = $iframename.document.location.outerHTML;

try this...

or you can append them yourself (dependant on how static the info is...

var vHTML = "<HTML><HEAD>head stuff here</HEAD>" + $iframename.document.location.innerHTML + "</HTML>";

it all depends on what you're trying to do

SashiRaveendran · Jun 25, 2003

window.frameName.document.documentElement.outerHTML

only works for pages in the same domain. If iframe contents is pointing to another site the above code will show an access denied message

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Getting the HTML in an IFRAME

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