[ciapug] grab form value from iframe document

[Tony Bibbs]

Do you have to do it on the client w/JS?  Could you, instead, use 
fopen() on the URL and parse the content the old fashioned way (or, if 
it is valid HTML, using xpath)?

--Tony

Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> I want to grab a form value from a form in an iframe document (in the 
> same domain, I'm not up to any xss shenanigans)
> 
> this doesn't work:
> <script language="javascript">
> function getIFrameVal() {
>     oIFrame = document.getElementById('iframeID');
>     val = oIFrame.document.frmID1.fieldname.value;
>     alert(val);
> }
> </script>
> nor does it work if I remove document from oIFrame.document.frmID1...
> 
> can I do this?
> 
> -barry
> 
> 
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