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HTML/JavaScript: How to copy text from a iframe

I'm kinda new to web development. I'm trying to copy text from a iframe into a textarea on a Bootstrap-html webpage.
An example of my code is here: https://jsfiddle.net/fe5ahoyw/
JavaScript
I have tried:
var a = document.getElementById('LD1');
var b = document.getElementById('OD1');
if (a != null)
{
b.value = a.value;
}
I have also tried:
var a = document.getElementById('LD1').innerHTML;
var a = document.getElementById('LD1').value;
var a = document.getElementById('LD1').html;
Any help would be any help would be much appreciated
Frostie

The JSFiddle is currently trying to access a http resource. As JSFiddle itself is https, most browsers will not like this very much.
That said, the selectors you are using inside the code are ... off. You need to get the frame itself -> content of the frame -> element within the frame you are interested in. I'd suggest using something like:
var a = document.getElementById('OD1');
var iFrame = document.getElementById('LD1');
var iFrameDocument = iFrame.contentDocument || iFrame.contentWindow.document;
content = iFrameDocument.body.textContent;
alert(content);
if (content)
{
a.value = content.value;
}

Javascript hiding and showing dynamic content of a div

Currently I hide and show the content of a div like this:
var header = null;
var content = null;
var mainHolder = null;
var expandCollapseBtn = null;
var heightValue = 0;
header = document.getElementById("header");
content = document.getElementById("content");
mainHolder = document.getElementById("mainHolder");
expandCollapseBtn = header.getElementsByTagName('img')[0];
heightValue = mainHolder.offsetHeight;
header.addEventListener('click', handleClick, false);
mainHolder.addEventListener('webkitTransitionEnd',transitionEndHandler,false);
function handleClick() {
if(expandCollapseBtn.src.search('collapse') !=-1)
{
mainHolder.style.height = "26px";
content.style.display = "none";
}
else
{
mainHolder.style.height = heightValue + "px";
}
}
function transitionEndHandler() {
if(expandCollapseBtn.src.search('collapse') !=-1)
{
expandCollapseBtn.src = "expand1.png";
}
else{
expandCollapseBtn.src = "collapse1.png";
content.style.display = "block";
}
}
This is fine if the content is static, but I'm trying to populate my div dynamically like so.
This is called from an iphone application and populates the div with a string.
var method;
function myFunc(str)
{
method = str;
alert(method);
document.getElementById('method').innerHTML = method;
}
I store the string globally in the variable method. The problem I am having is now when I try expand the div I have just collapsed there is nothing there. Is there some way that I could use the information stored in var to repopulate the div before expanding it again? I've tried inserting it like I do in the function but it doesn't work.
Does anyone have any ideas?
to replicate:
Here is the jsfiddle. jsfiddle.net/6a9B3 If you type in text between
here it will work fine. I'm not sure
how I can call myfunc with a string only once in this jsfiddle, but if
you can work out how to do that you will see it loads ok the first
time, but when you collapse the section and attempt to re open it, it
wont work.
If the only way to fix this is using jquery I dont mind going down that route.

is it working in other browsers?
can you jsfiddle.net for present functionality because it is hard to understand context of problem in such code-shoot...
there are tonns of suggestions :) but I have strong feeling that
document.getElementById('method')
returns wrong element or this element not placed inside mainHolder
update: after review sample in jsfiddle
feeling about wrong element was correct :) change 'method' to 'info'
document.getElementById('method') -> document.getElementById('info')

I think you want to use document.getElementById('content') instead of document.getElementById('method') in myFunc.

I really see nothing wrong with this code. However, a guess you could explore is altering the line
content.style.display = "none";
It might be the case that whatever is displaying your html ( a webview or the browser itself) might be wiping the content of the elemtns, as the display is set to none

Safari print with Javascript produces blank when printing an Iframe

I have read up on all issues regarding Safari and blank printing. It seems that a white flash happens, re-rendering the page, and content of the iframe is lost before a print dialog can grab it.
Here is my javascript - It works in all browsers except safari. It brings up the dialog, but prints a blank page.
function PrintPopupCode(id) {
framedoc = document;
var popupFrame = $(framedoc).find("#" + id + '\\!PopupFrame');
var icontentWindow = popupFrame[0].contentWindow || popupFrame[0].contentDocument;
icontentWindow.focus();
icontentWindow.print();
}
function PrintPopup(id) {
setTimeout(function () { PrintPopupCode(id) }, 3000);
}
I have set a timeout, i previously read it would help if the transfer of content took sometime, but it has not helped.
I have also tried with printElement() function on the icontentWindow variable, but it does not support this method.
Print Element Method
This is all in a .js file, and not on the page. I have tried on the page, but the same thing happens.
Help?

Maybe you should try this:
function PrintPopupCode(id) {
framedoc = document;
var popupFrame = $(framedoc).find("#" + id + '\\!PopupFrame');
var icontentWindow = popupFrame[0].contentWindow || popupFrame[0].contentDocument;
icontentWindow.focus();
setTimeout(icontentWindow.print, 3000);
}
function PrintPopup(id) {
PrintPopupCode(id);
}

Getting Contents of Iframe with Pure JavaScript

I already can get the content of an Iframe with jQuery, though I would like to learn how to get it with pure JavaScript.
This is what I have so far.
var frame = document.getElementById('awc_frame');
var easyBB = frame.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML;
easyBB.getElementById('chatbox-title').innerText="Chatbox";
What am I doing wrong, please help. Also originally the frame does not have an ID, and I already tried this
var frame = document.frames['awc_frame'];
Is that cross browser efficient? And then how do I get the contentWindow? Just some explanation so I can do this with JavaScript and not jQuery. jQuery version is this
var frame = $('#avacweb_chat iframe');
var easyBB = $('#chatbox-title',frame.contents()).text('Chatbox');

If it is on the same domain, try this. It won't let you access iframe contents if the iframe is of a different origin than the window that you are viewing.
var iframe = document.getElementById("awc_frame");
var iframe_contents = iframe.contentDocument.body.innerHTML;
Working example with jsfiddle iframe viewing a page on the same domain:
http://jsfiddle.net/tqAL3/1/

The same answer as Nile but as a function more similar to the querySelector
// iframe-query-selectors.js v1
function iframeQuerySelector(iframe, selector, all){
if( iframe && (iframe.nodeName || iframe.tagName) === 'IFRAME' && iframe.nodeType === 1){
all = all ? 'All' : '';
if(selector){
return iframe.contentDocument['querySelector' + all](selector);
};
return iframe.contentDocument;
};
throw new Error('The element must be an iframe.');
};
function iframeQuerySelectorAll(iframe, selector){
return iframeQuerySelector(iframe, selector, true);
};

Trouble with iFrame.contentDocument

Basically, im making a javascript to refresh a page and it will find the price and buy the item when it goes up for the price desired.
I got it to work without the iframe, but I need to to work in the iframe, which is the problem ive reached.
If you went to this page: [ http://m.roblox.com/items/100933289/privatesales ]
and ran this code:
alert(document.getElementsByClassName('currency-robux')[0].innerHTML);
You would get an alert for the lowest price. In the code, this doesnt work (Hence, my problem.)
Try running the code below on this page to get it to work [ http://www.roblox.com/Junk-Bot-item?id=100933289 ]
var filePath = document.URL;
var itemid = filePath.slice(((filePath.search("="))+1));
var mobileRoot = 'http://m.roblox.com/items/';
var mobileEnd = '/privatesales';
var mobileFilePath = mobileRoot+itemid+mobileEnd;
var iframe2 = '<iframe id="frame" width="100%" height="1" scrolling="yes"></iframe>';
document.write(iframe2);
var iframe = parent.document.getElementById("frame");
iframe.height = 300;
iframe.width = 500;
iframe.src = mobileFilePath;
var price;
var snipe = false;
var lp = Number(prompt("Snipe Price?"));
document.title = "Sniping";
function takeOutCommas(s){
var str = s;
while ((str.indexOf(",")) !== -1){
str = str.replace(",","");
}
return str;
}
function load() {
if (snipe == false) {
tgs = iframe.contentDocument.getElementsByClassName('currency-robux');
price = Number((takeOutCommas(tgs[0].innerHTML)));
alert(price);
}
}
iframe.onload = load;

You might try having both pages — the one from "m.roblox.com" and the one from "www.roblox.com" — add the following up at the top of the head:
<script>
document.domain = "roblox.com";
</script>
Code from the different domains won't be allowed to look at each others page contents, but if you set the domains to the same suffix then it should work.

If you can't get it to work by sharing the same document.domain="roblox.com" code then you can try posting messages to the iframe.
Put this inside the iframe page:
window.addEventListener('message',function(e) {
});
In the parent page execute this to pass a message (can be a string or object, anything really) to the iframe:
document.getElementById("frame").contentWindow.postMessage({ "json_example": true }, "*");
Put this in the parent to listen for the message:
window.addEventListener("message", messageReceived, false);
function messageReceived(e) {
}
From inside the iframe posting a message back out:
window.parent.postMessage('Hello Parent Page','*');