Comments on: Introducing HTML into an iframe and getting it back http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:55:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: shadedecho http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back/comment-page-1#comment-266502 shadedecho Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:27:24 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4024#comment-266502 I thought "documentFragment" was intended for, or at least useful for, such things. I thought “documentFragment” was intended for, or at least useful for, such things.

]]> By: jnthnlstr http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back/comment-page-1#comment-266498 jnthnlstr Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:13:37 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4024#comment-266498 I can think of a few reasons why you would want to render an HTML string into an iframe: 1 - you can perform document.getElementById(id) and similar methods on the rendered document 1b - whilst browsers allow tags with the same ID in the same document, they shouldn't* and might not one day - rendering a document into a separate iframe allows you to manipulate its DOM whilst playing along with the standards 2 - the iframe behaves as a sandbox for CSS, so you don't risk upsetting your page's CSS when rendering the document 3 - if the page you're rendering has any document.write invocations in its JavaScript, they will overwrite your already-rendered page 4 - the document inside the iframe is a full HTML page, so has a DOCTYPE associated with it * http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2 I can think of a few reasons why you would want to render an HTML string into an iframe:
1 – you can perform document.getElementById(id) and similar methods on the rendered document
1b – whilst browsers allow tags with the same ID in the same document, they shouldn’t* and might not one day – rendering a document into a separate iframe allows you to manipulate its DOM whilst playing along with the standards
2 – the iframe behaves as a sandbox for CSS, so you don’t risk upsetting your page’s CSS when rendering the document
3 – if the page you’re rendering has any document.write invocations in its JavaScript, they will overwrite your already-rendered page
4 – the document inside the iframe is a full HTML page, so has a DOCTYPE associated with it

* http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2

]]> By: AriesBelgium http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back/comment-page-1#comment-266465 AriesBelgium Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:26:57 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4024#comment-266465 Hmm, Wordpress takes away the html instead of converting it to htmlchars. http://pastebin.com/f5e4fc48e Hmm, Wordpress takes away the html instead of converting it to htmlchars.
http://pastebin.com/f5e4fc48e

]]> By: AriesBelgium http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back/comment-page-1#comment-266464 AriesBelgium Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:24:10 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4024#comment-266464 Hmm, that's a lot of code for doing the same this as this: " var container = document.createElement("DIV"); container.innerHTML = "foobar"; var ul = container.firstChild; " Hmm, that’s a lot of code for doing the same this as this:
”
var container = document.createElement(”DIV”);
container.innerHTML = “foobar”;
var ul = container.firstChild;
“

]]> By: jpsykes http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back/comment-page-1#comment-266462 jpsykes Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:43:31 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4024#comment-266462 I think one of the things missing from the above description and the original page is why you would want to use this rather than writing the content to a DIV. I think one of the things missing from the above description and the original page is why you would want to use this rather than writing the content to a DIV.

]]> By: eyelidlessness http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back/comment-page-1#comment-266461 eyelidlessness Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:18:08 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4024#comment-266461 More than being simple and standard DOM, one wonders why it's promoting such a weird way of writing content to the frame rather than using standard DOM operations there too. More than being simple and standard DOM, one wonders why it’s promoting such a weird way of writing content to the frame rather than using standard DOM operations there too.

]]> By: JrHames http://ajaxian.com/archives/introducing-html-into-an-iframe-and-getting-it-back/comment-page-1#comment-266460 JrHames Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:00:04 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4024#comment-266460 This is really old and there is no trick. Just simple and standard DOM. This is really old and there is no trick. Just simple and standard DOM.

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