I am having the devil’s own business trying to access the contents of an iframe which is used as a target for a file upload.
In a php file called AJAXaddFile.php, I have the form etc - as you can see it handles the return itself: <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ?>" id="AJAXaddFile" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="form_iframe"> .... <input type="submit" value="Upload file" name="submit" id="aafSubmit" style="background-color:#2C5E9B; color:#FFFFFF;" /> Then outside the form is the actual iframe itself: <iframe name="form_iframe" id="form_iframe" src="../templates/blank.html" class="loader" style="display:none"></iframe> Blank.html is exactly that – just an empty page with no mark up at all. The fileupload works just fine, but what I want to do refresh the screen once the file has been uploaded. My plan had been to grab the contents of the iFrame and then using a $().html function dynamically refresh the screen showing the newly uploaded file. Playing around with CSS off I can see the iFrame contains the returned data with the recently uploaded file as the top of the list which is exactly what I want. But try as I might I can’t seem to access that wretched iFrame through jQuery. The jQuery is hanging off a submit function: $('#AJAXaddFile').submit(function() { } I have tried all manner of ways of getting hold of that content. If I do $('#form_iframe').html() after the .submit call I simply get the contents of blank.html back again. I tried doing an Ajax call using .get on the original file as part of the submit callback, but it seems to access the data *before* the upload has taken place, not after the sumbit has happened. If I try and grab the iframe outside of the .submit call then obviously it doesn't contain the data. What I am trying to do is to grab the data once the server has returned the data (I tried a .ready on the iFrame but it picks it up before the php script has fired). Alas I can't point to this in real life as it is on a development server which is not visible. I suspect that is as clear as mud – but if anyone can pick their way through this and has any pointers ... I would be soooo appreciative. Many many thanks Ben No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.10/1421 - Release Date: 07/05/2008 17:23