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ksol
ksol

Reputation: 12235

Cannot get the contents of an iframe w/ jQuery

I'm inserting an iframe to display another website's content in mine, and I'd like to clean it up first. So I tried to use $('iframe').contents, but the return is undefined, while $('iframe') works like a charm. Is there some kind of cross site security here ?

Bonus question : how should I clean the page then ? I just need div#main, not the rest. I'm using an iframe so I can get the original styling.

Thanks for your time

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1596

Answers (2)

Linus Thiel
Linus Thiel

Reputation: 39223

It's called Same-Origin Policy. Basically, you can't use javascript to interact with pages from another domain (protocol, domain and port must all match).

Upvotes: 2

Grim...
Grim...

Reputation: 16953

Is there some kind of cross site security here?

Yes, the Same Origin Policy.

There aren't many ways around it - I once used PHP to fetch the contents of the target webpage and write them locally, but that was quite a specific thing (and I owned both domains).

Take a look at this question: jQuery cross domain iframe scripting

Upvotes: 4

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