JavaScript getElementById Iframe

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JavaScript getElementById Iframe

JavaScript getElementById IFrame

        

We can also use document.getElementById() method with the IFrame. In this example we have created an html page into which we have one IFrame window which takes another HTML page. We have to pass the text field values from the IFrame html page to the main HTML page's text fields.

Description of code :

We have created two pages. One is "inputForm.html" and another is "getDataIframe.html". In getDataIframe.html we have included inputForm.html page as :

<iframe id="iframe_id" src="inputForm.html" height="275" >
</iframe>

In the inputForm.html page we have created three text fields and one button. When "Submit" button is clicked all these three fields values are passed to the input() function of the parent component page.  This input() function is defined in the getDataIframe.html( parent of inputForm.html ) page.

 function input(string1,string2,string3){
    var name=string1;
    var age=string2;
    var clss=string3;
    document.getElementById('nameAnchor').value=name;
    document.getElementById('ageAnchor').value=age;
    document.getElementById('classAnchor').value=clss;
   }

In first three line of the input function we have created three variables name, age, class which holds the value inserted into the text fields of "inputForm.html". These values are further set to the text fields by using the method document.getElementById() method.

Here is the full example code :

inputForm.html

<html>
 <head>
  <title>IFrame Example</title>
</head>
<body>
  <form name="frm2" >
   <center>
     <h1><font color="#000099">Input Form of IFrame</font></h1>
     <p>Name : <input type="text" name="resp1" id="input" value=""/></p>
     <p>Age : <input type="text" name="resp2" id="input" value=""/></p>
     <p>Class : <input type="text" name="resp3" id="input" value=""/></p>
     <input type="button" onclick="parent.input(this.form.resp1.value,
       this.form.resp2.value,this.form.resp3.value);" value="Submit" />
   </center>
  </form>
</body>
</html>

getDataIframe.html

<html>
 <head>
  <title>getElementById IFrame Example</title>
  <script language="javascript">
    function input(string1,string2,string3){
    var name=string1;
    var age=string2;
    var clss=string3;
    document.getElementById('nameAnchor').value=name;
    document.getElementById('ageAnchor').value=age;
    document.getElementById('classAnchor').value=clss;
   }
 </script>
</head>
 <body>
 <div>
   <div style="float:left;">
    <iframe id="iframe_id" src="inputForm.html" 
                               height="275" >
    </iframe>
   </div>
   <div>
     Name : <input type="text"  id="nameAnchor" >
     Age   :<input type="text"  id="ageAnchor" >
     Class: <input type="text"  id="classAnchor">
   </div>
 </div>  
 </body>
</html>

Output :

The output will look like:

Insert values into the IFrame form and click on the "Submit" button.

As you can see in the following output that these values are passed to the parent text fields.

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