How might I access frames within the document?

[canadaduane]

Hi all,

How would I go about accessing the frames within a website? The
following doesn't seem to work for me:

var tab = Application.activeWindow.open(Utils.url(url));
var $ = jQuery(tab.document.body);
$.find("frame[name=body]").html("DUANE WAS HERE");

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Duane Johnson

[Blair McBride]

Your code for accessing frames isn't the issue there - you need to wait
until the page is loaded before doing anything with it.

Try the following modification:

var tab = Application.activeWindow.open(Utils.url(url));
tab.events.addListener("load", function() {
jQuery("frame[name=body]", tab.document).html("DUANE WAS HERE");
});

Hope that helps.

- Blair

[canadaduane]

It turns out that I am already doing the "addListener" bit (while
shortening my program for the email, I missed that part). Sorry to
add confusion!

Is there anything else that would prevent the frame DOM from being
accessed? Do I need a second level of listeners, i.e. to listen for
each frame's DOM to be loaded?

[Blair McBride]

Oh, yes, you'll need to listen for the "load" event on whichever frame
you wish to modify too.

Warning: You may or may not have problems relating to cross-domain
scripting. Check the error console's messages.

- Blair

[canadaduane]

Thanks for your help on this, Blair. Do you know where I attach the
frame's load event? Would the code look something like:

tab = Application.activeWindow.open(Utils.url(url));
tab.events.addListener("load", function() {

tab.document.frames[0].events.addListener("load", function() {
// do stuff
});
});

I'll have to fiddle with things to see if that's correct. If you know
the answer directly, that would be helpful too.

Thanks again!
Duane

[Blair McBride]

I haven't tested it, but with one small modification it should work:

tab = Application.activeWindow.open(Utils.url(url));
tab.events.addListener("load", function() {

tab.document.frames[0].addListener("load", function() {

// do stuff
});
});

- Blair