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Meh
Meh

Reputation: 607

Transferring text from iFRAME to a textarea using js or jquery

I'm currently working on a little html/js site and my current goal is to load a .txt file into a page (accomplished this with iFrame src), then transfer the text from the iFrame to a textArea. The latter I cannot do for some reason. I have tried to get various scripts to help me but none of them seem to work.

Currently lets imagine i have only this in the html:

<iframe name=my_frame id=my_frame src=textfile.txt height=100% width=100% frameborder=0 scrolling=auto marginheight=5 marginwidth=5></iframe>

The java code i am using to validate whether I am getting the inner text of the iFrame is a simple alert:

    <script>
    alert($('my_frame').*[attribute]*);
    </script>

The ''attribute'' part is a dummy in this case. I've used things like HTML, innerHTML, innerTEXT, text, value, body, instead - but none of them work....

Perhaps someone here could assist with a little script to accomplish moving plain text from iFRAME to textArea, or even suggest a better way of approaching this?

I would be extremely grateful for any and all assistance.

Cpt.Mgn.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1866

Answers (2)

PraveenVenu
PraveenVenu

Reputation: 8337

if your file is hosted and the textfile is public-ally accessible, then you can try this

$.get("http://yourdomain.com/a.txt", null, function(response){
    $("#theTextArea").val(response); // where theTextArea is the ID of the textarea you want to put the data into.
});

Upvotes: 0

V&#237;ctor Due&#241;as Robles
V&#237;ctor Due&#241;as Robles

Reputation: 393

I think you must change your code:

 <script>
    alert($('#my_frame').html());
    </script>

# Is a selector for id.

html() return all the html inside the element.

I hope this helps :)

EDIT: 

<iframe name=my_frame id=my_frame src=textfile.txt height=100% width=100% frameborder=0 scrolling=auto marginheight=5 marginwidth=5>Hello </iframe>

And alert said: Hello

Link to code: http://jsfiddle.net/rEM6H/

Upvotes: 2

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