How can I access iframe elements with Javascript

Question

I have a webpage where there is a textarea within a iframe  I need to read the value of this textarea from its child page JavaScript  Presently by using window parent getelementbyID   value in the JavaScript  I am able to fetch values of all controls in the parent page except the textarea within the iframe  The frame id and frame name in my parent page changes in runtime  hence we cannot use the frame id frame name for reference

User · Answer

Using jQuery you can use contents    For example   var inside       one   contents

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If you have the HTML     lt form name  formname       id  form-first  gt       lt iframe id  one  src  iframe2 html  gt       lt  iframe gt   lt  form gt    and JavaScript    function iframeRef  frameRef         return frameRef contentWindow           frameRef contentWindow document           frameRef contentDocument    var inside   iframeRef  document getElementById  one       inside is now a reference to the document  so you can do getElementsByTagName  textarea   and whatever you like  depending on what s inside the iframe src

[javascript] How can I access iframe elements with Javascript?

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