[jQuery] How to access contents of frames/iframes with jQuery?

[Kynn Jones]

Hi again!

(Second question in as many days...  I guess I'm the overeager noob.  :) )

Last night I watched John Resig's screencast Hacking Digg with Firebug and
jQuery ( highly recommended, BTW:
http://ejohn.org/blog/hacking-digg-with-firebug-and-jquery/ ) and I
immediately went to one of my favorite webapps and tried to put to use the
ideas he presented, but right out of the gate I crashed against frames.

Or at least I think that's what the problem was.  For example, when I tried
to evaluate jQuery expressions like $(div), the result printed by Firebug
was [ ], even though, according to Firebug's inspector, the page I was
trying to dissect had plenty of divs.  (BTW, this seemed odd to me, since it
seems somehow to go against the find things, do stuff philosophy.)

Anyway, I did get reasonable-looking results when I tried $(frameset) and
$(frame), but I can't figure out how to get past this point.

(BTW, I did try Firefox's Show only this frame command, but the server
basically vetoes the request and sends all the frames anyway.)

So my question is, can jQuery handle frames?  More specifically, what jQuery
functions would one use to find and manipulate the contents of a frame?

And what about iframes?

Thanks in advance!

kj

PS: I scanned the documentation in http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing ,
but I didn't find an answer.
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Re: [jQuery] How to access contents of frames/iframes with jQuery?

[Daemach]

I'm somewhat noobish, but perhaps you could use a selector with a context?  

$(#some div, #frameID)...



Kynn Jones wrote:
 
 Hi again!
 
 (Second question in as many days...  I guess I'm the overeager noob.  :) )
 
 Last night I watched John Resig's screencast Hacking Digg with Firebug
 and
 jQuery ( highly recommended, BTW:
 http://ejohn.org/blog/hacking-digg-with-firebug-and-jquery/ ) and I
 immediately went to one of my favorite webapps and tried to put to use the
 ideas he presented, but right out of the gate I crashed against frames.
 
 Or at least I think that's what the problem was.  For example, when I
 tried
 to evaluate jQuery expressions like $(div), the result printed by
 Firebug
 was [ ], even though, according to Firebug's inspector, the page I was
 trying to dissect had plenty of divs.  (BTW, this seemed odd to me, since
 it
 seems somehow to go against the find things, do stuff philosophy.)
 
 Anyway, I did get reasonable-looking results when I tried $(frameset)
 and
 $(frame), but I can't figure out how to get past this point.
 
 (BTW, I did try Firefox's Show only this frame command, but the server
 basically vetoes the request and sends all the frames anyway.)
 
 So my question is, can jQuery handle frames?  More specifically, what
 jQuery
 functions would one use to find and manipulate the contents of a frame?
 
 And what about iframes?
 
 Thanks in advance!
 
 kj
 
 PS: I scanned the documentation in http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing ,
 but I didn't find an answer.
 
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