Get innerHTML of #xEditingArea for parent window

How can I pull up the content from the main window of the editor to the calling parent?

The following returns null

window.frames[0].document.getElementById('xEditingArea').innerhtml

And since the iframe doesn't have the name attribute I can't call it with that, which is the preferred way. Also, I've tried this to no avail:

document.getElementById('nameoffield___Frame').innerhtml

Tue, 08/12/2008 - 21:09

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Get innerHTML of #xEditingArea for parent window

Why do you want to do that instead of using the API?

Wed, 08/13/2008 - 18:30

deepatpaul

Joined: 12/08/2008

Posts: 6

Re: Get innerHTML of #xEditingArea for parent window

I have an external script that uses AJAX to pull database content from other records, and if the user chooses, replaces whatever is currently in the FCK edit window with this new data.

Wed, 08/13/2008 - 21:16

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Get innerHTML of #xEditingArea for parent window

The question remains.
Why do you want to use the DOM instead of using the API?

Sat, 08/16/2008 - 04:04

mctittles

Joined: 15/08/2008

Posts: 3

Re: Get innerHTML of #xEditingArea for parent window

I think what alfonsoml is trying to say (without actually saying it) is that the api has a function to get the content of the editor and the code to do this is as follows:

var innerContent= FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('InstanceName').GetHTML();

Wed, 08/20/2008 - 17:46

deepatpaul

Joined: 12/08/2008

Posts: 6

Re: Get innerHTML of #xEditingArea for parent window

Well! That's infinitely more reasonable. I just wasn't aware of the ability to do it this way. Thank you.