I had an iframe inside an iframe so this is what I had to use:
var details = $("#details___Frame").contents().find("body").find
("#xEditingArea iframe").contents().find("body").html();
Thank goodness for firebug!
On Feb 16, 6:42 pm, webdeveloperintexas <prove.faith...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I tried that and it did not work.
>
> On Feb 16, 4:04 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
