Getting IFRAME text

[Aaron Gray]

<iframe name="iframe" width="100%" height="25%" src="test1.txt">
</iframe>

<a href="test1.txt" target="input">one</a>
<a href="test2.txt" target="input">two</a>

<form name="form1">
<textarea name="textarea" cols=80 rows=18>
This is a test
</textarea><br>
<button name="Copy" value="Copy" OnClick="DoCopy()">Copy</button>
</form>

<script>

function DoCopy()
{
form1.textarea.value=iframe.innerText;
}
</script>

 

[Aaron Gray]

Whoops, forgot the question !

I want to copy the text from a text document opened in an iframe into a
textarea at th press of a button.

<iframe name="iframe" width="100%" height="25%" src="test1.txt">
</iframe>

<a href="test1.txt" target="input">one</a>
<a href="test2.txt" target="input">two</a>

<form name="form1">
<textarea name="textarea" cols=80 rows=18>
This is a test
</textarea><br>
<button name="Copy" value="Copy" OnClick="DoCopy()">Copy</button>
</form>

<script>

function DoCopy()
{
form1.textarea.value=iframe.innerText;
}
</script>

I tried 'iframe.body.innerText' but that did not work.

Aaron

 

[VK]

Whoops, forgot the question !

I want to copy the text from a text document opened in an iframe into a
textarea at th press of a button.


I tried 'iframe.body.innerText' but that did not work.

Aaron

<iframe name="iframe01" width="100%" height="25%" src="test1.txt">
</iframe>

<form name="form1">
<textarea name="txt01" cols=80 rows=18>
This is a test
</textarea><br>
<button name="Copy" value="Copy" OnClick="DoCopy()">Copy</button>
</form>


<script>


function DoCopy()
{
document.forms['form1'].elements['txt01'].value =
document.frames['iframe01'].document.body.innerHTML;
}
</script>



1) Never ever give the names/id using generic html element names
("iframe", "textarea" etc.)

2) <http://www.javascripttoolbox.com/bestpractices/> see about
addressing frames/form elements - helps a lot.

;-)

 

[Aaron Gray]

1) Never ever give the names/id using generic html element names

("iframe", "textarea" etc.)

Okay

2) <http://www.javascripttoolbox.com/bestpractices/> see about
addressing frames/form elements - helps a lot.

This does not deal with getting the text from a text document in an iframe
which is what I was after.

Aaron

 

[Martin Honnen]

<iframe name="iframe" width="100%" height="25%" src="test1.txt">
</iframe>

Is that really a text/plain document in the iframe? Or a text/html
document? Obviously the DOM is defined for (structured) HTML and XML
documents but not for (unstructured) text documents.
Though some browser (IE, Mozilla too perhaps) might expose a document
with a body for text, see below.

<form name="form1">
<textarea name="textarea" cols=80 rows=18>
This is a test
</textarea><br>
<button name="Copy" value="Copy" OnClick="DoCopy()">Copy</button>

<input type="button" value="Copy"
onclick="DoCopy(this.form.elements.textarea, 'iframe')">

function DoCopy()

function DoCopy (textControl, iframeName) {
if (window.frames && window.frames[iframeName] &&
window.frames[iframeName].document &&
window.frames[iframeName].document.body &&
window.frames[iframeName].document.body.innerHTML)
{
textControl.value =
window.frames[iframeName].document.body.innerHTML;
}
}

 

[Aaron Gray]

<input type="button" value="Copy"

onclick="DoCopy(this.form.elements.textarea, 'iframe')">

function DoCopy (textControl, iframeName) {
if (window.frames && window.frames[iframeName] &&
window.frames[iframeName].document &&
window.frames[iframeName].document.body &&
window.frames[iframeName].document.body.innerHTML)
{
textControl.value =
window.frames[iframeName].document.body.innerHTML;
}
}

Great, the text appears as a <pre> block, but using InnerText rather than
innerHTML sorts that out and just copies the raw text

Thanks alot,

Aaron

 

[Randy Webb]

Aaron Gray said the following on 11/10/2005 3:57 PM:

<input type="button" value="Copy"
onclick="DoCopy(this.form.elements.textarea, 'iframe')">

function DoCopy (textControl, iframeName) {
if (window.frames && window.frames[iframeName] &&
window.frames[iframeName].document &&
window.frames[iframeName].document.body &&
window.frames[iframeName].document.body.innerHTML)
{
textControl.value =
window.frames[iframeName].document.body.innerHTML;
}
}

Great, the text appears as a <pre> block, but using InnerText rather than
innerHTML sorts that out and just copies the raw text

And only works in IE since innerText is IE proprietary code.

 

[Aaron Gray]

And only works in IE since innerText is IE proprietary code.

Okay, I will have to do a workaround at some point

Aaron

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Okay

Don't listen to what V'often wrong'K is telling you. There is nothing
wrong in using such names, there is no known side effect in any language
or UA. What is true is that it is a Good Thing to choose names with
meaning; for example, the `textarea' element could be named according
to its expected content.

This does not deal with getting the text from a text document
in an iframe which is what I was after.

Try referenceToIframe.document.body.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue in
Mozilla/5.0. WFM in Firefox 1.0.7/Linux as an iframe with a plaintext
resource is made available through an embedded HTML document with a
`pre' element containing the resource's content.


PointedEars

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Great, the text appears as a <pre> block, but using InnerText rather than
innerHTML sorts that out and just copies the raw text

Note that innerText (JS is case-sensitive) is an IE-proprietary property.


PointedEars

 

[Aaron Gray]

Don't listen to what V'often wrong'K is telling you. There is nothing

wrong in using such names, there is no known side effect in any language
or UA. What is true is that it is a Good Thing to choose names with
meaning; for example, the `textarea' element could be named according
to its expected content.

Yes they are different namespaces.

Try referenceToIframe.document.body.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue in
Mozilla/5.0.
WFM in Firefox 1.0.7/Linux as an iframe with a plaintext
resource is made available through an embedded HTML document with a
`pre' element containing the resource's content.

referenceToIframe.document.body.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue

Works in IE too

Thanks.

Aaron

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Aaron Gray wrote:

Please provide proper attribution, see

referenceToIframe.document.body.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue

Works in IE too

Nice However it is not supposed to work in IE/Windows < 5.0 and I'm
not sure about IE/Mac either. W3C DOM support was introduced in IE pretty
late, so you should definitely feature-test it on run time.

Thanks.

You're welcome.


PointedEars

 

[Aaron Gray]

Please provide proper attribution, see

<http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/pots1.html>
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/pots1.html#ps1TopPs

!

Aaron

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/pots1.html#ps1TopPs

!

Why, I did not top-post


F'up2 PointedEars

 

[Aaron Gray]

Why, I did not top-post

Just joking

I did think when I wrote that post that the context was odd.

Aaron

 

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 11 Nov
2005 19:49:47, seen in Thomas 'PointedEars'

Aaron Gray wrote:

Please provide proper attribution, see
<http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/pots1.html>

Please provide proper attribution, as guided by USEFOR thinking.

Please stop being a nerdish bully.