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Retrieve content of iFrame

I’ve just figured out the correct DOM to retrieve the HTML out of an iFrame. Works on IE 6+7, Firefox 2, and Safari 3.0.2. Not that any of my users use anything other than IE.

1. var x=document.getElementById(“frm”);
2. alert(x.contentWindow.document.documentElement.innerHTML);

I used Firebug (add-on to Firefox) to trace the DOM to find the necessary hierarchy. “outerHTML” doesn’t seem to work, but that is ok as all that is missing is the “html” tags.