[wings01234]

Is there a way to read the content of a web page to a variable using javascript, but don't open that web page?
Somthing like PHP's:

$url="http://www.somesite.com";
$content = join('', file($url));

Or other client-side script can?

[CarnieLtd]

As far as I am aware you will need to open the webpage to read its contents with either innerTEXT or innerHTML. If you don't want your user to see it being opened the best way to hide it would be to use an invisible iframe that loads the page. They still maybe able to see it loading by the status bar but it will never show on the website.

[wings01234]

Cound you show me some exmple code? Thanks a lot.

[psyon]

There is no way to do this if the content you wish to retrieve is on another site. Browsers do not allow cross site scripting for security reasons.

If the content is on the same sites, then it is possible by using an iframe or normal frames

Assuming you have an iframe

Code:

<iframe name="loader" height=0 width=0 style="visibility: hidden">

Then once a page is loaded into the iframe you should be able to get the contents with

Code:

var html = document.loader.innerHTML;

I might have teh document.loader.innterHTML part wrong, I have a script at my home computer that I use to load variables from a text file that does this. If that is not the correct way, I will post working code if no one else has by the time I get home.

[tekola]

This is a follow-up. This code doesn't appear to work.
Assuming you have an iframe

<iframe name="loader" height=0 width=0 style="visibility: hidden">

Then once a page is loaded into the iframe you should be able to get the contents with

var html = document.loader.innerHTML;



I get the Iframe content but nothing in html.