Try $('#xEditingArea').contents().find('body').html()
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, webdeveloperintexas
<prove.faith...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to get the contents of the page -- its HTML code.
> Everything always returns null.
> Here is what I tried:
> var details = $('#xEditingArea').html();
> alert("a"+details); -- returns null
> var details = $('#xEditingArea iframe html body').html();
> alert("b"+details); -- returns null
>
> The page is using fckeditor and I need the contents of the fckeditor
> which uses numerous iframes.
>
> The tags are these:
> xEditingArea is the id of the td tag that then contains an iframe.
> The iframe contains html then body tags. None of these have any
> identifying characteristics put on them by the fckeditor so I can't
> retrieve them using an id.
>
> Is there something in jquery that prevents it from returning the html?
> Is it the iframes that is causing the problem?
> I've tried hundreds of combinations and can't figure it out.
>
> I am doing an autosave and it used to work with niceditor but then I
> had to switch over to fckeditor and found this problem. I've spent 3
> hours and have gotten nowhere.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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