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mbillard
mbillard

Reputation: 38882

How to access the content of an iframe with jQuery?

How can I access the content of an iframe with jQuery? I tried doing this, but it wouldn't work:

iframe content: <div id="myContent"></div>

jQuery: $("#myiframe").find("#myContent")

How can I access myContent?

Similar to jquery/javascript: accessing contents of an iframe but the accepted answer is not what I was looking for.

Upvotes: 130

Views: 351198

Answers (3)

mbillard
mbillard

Reputation: 38882

You have to use the contents() method:

$("#myiframe").contents().find("#myContent")

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20180608003357/http://simple.procoding.net/2008/03/21/how-to-access-iframe-in-jquery/

API Doc: https://api.jquery.com/contents/

Upvotes: 243

fireb86
fireb86

Reputation: 1872

If iframe's source is an external domain, browsers will hide the iframe contents (Same Origin Policy). A workaround is saving the external contents in a file, for example (in PHP):

<?php
    $contents = file_get_contents($external_url);
    $res = file_put_contents($filename, $contents);
?>

then, get the new file content (string) and parse it to html, for example (in jquery):

$.get(file_url, function(string){
    var html = $.parseHTML(string);
    var contents = $(html).contents();
},'html');

Upvotes: 18

andres descalzo
andres descalzo

Reputation: 14967

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

$(function() {

    //here you have the control over the body of the iframe document
    var iBody = $("#iView").contents().find("body");

    //here you have the control over any element (#myContent)
    var myContent = iBody.find("#myContent");

});

</script>
</head>
<body>
  <iframe src="mifile.html" id="iView" style="width:200px;height:70px;border:dotted 1px red" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 24

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