Cross site scripting?

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Cross site scripting?

Hi I am trying to grab a div from another website using JS.

I have an iframe that loads a page from an external site, I want to grab a div that contains a list so I can style it myself and put it on my site.

Any ideas, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Most browsers won't allow you to mess with other websites in iframes via javascript on purpose, because it's an obvious security issue.

Tom Dalling 2009-07-07 11:07:28

+1 I would say all browsers

flybywire 2009-07-07 11:15:38

Is there any way just to grab a div and echo it on your own page, so I am not actually making any changes to their page ?

Joe 2009-07-07 11:18:14

You need to use a proxy script so that the browser reads the page from your own server. You can't even read the HTML from an external site using script - you can load it into an iframe and display it verbatim, but you can't see it from script at all.

RichieHindle 2009-07-07 11:22:46

Thanks for that, I hadnt thought of that method.

Joe 2009-07-07 11:48:38

+2 A:

As Tom points out, you can't do this because of browser security. You can work around it by installing a proxy script on your server, so that the browser loads the external page via your server.

RichieHindle 2009-07-07 11:17:48

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