Re: Accessing an IFrame's properties

Declan Naughton <piratepenguin@gmail.com> writes:

> Seeing as window.frames isn't a part of any w3c standard, surely there
> must be another (standards-compliant) way to access the properties of a
> document included using the iframe or object elements (preferably
> object)... right?

Yes.

---
 var iframeElem = document.getElementById("myIframeId");
 var iframeDoc = iframeElem.contentDocument;
 iframeDoc.body.style.backgroundColor="red"; // i'm in!
---
Does it work in IE? Ofcourse not.
In IE, iframe elements does not have a "contentDocument" property.
They do have a "contentWindow", so you can do:
---
 var iframeDoc = iframeElem.contentDocument || 
     (iframeElem.contentWindow && iframeElem.contentWindow.document);
---
 
Good luck.
/L
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