Just a heads up I am a semi noob at JavaScript.
So for the past two days I have been googleing and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to execute a function in an iframe from the parent page. The page in the iframe is on a different domain and the code to be executed is usually executed via a link, but I want it to be executed without have the users click on the link.
I hope that made some sense. If you guys would like to see what I have so far just let me know, but I don't think it would be of much help since it doesn't work at all.
AFAIK, you can not execute JavaScript from a different domain in another fram due to security restrictions in most browsers (definitely Mozilla).
I have heard rumors of a way around that with Yahoo! Pipes but must cofess that I never investigated that so don't know if that is the case.
Just google for "same origin policy workaround" and see if any of the workarounds listed serve your purpose.
Different domain? You can't.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Same_origin_policy_for_JavaScript describes one way of adjusting the domain of a page with limits.
There is one exception to the same
origin rule. A script can set the
value of document.domain to a suffix
of the current domain. If it does so,
the shorter domain is used for
subsequent origin checks. For example,
assume a script in the document at
http://store.company.com/dir/other.html
executes the following statement:
There are other ways of communicating between frames that don't blur domain boundaries, such as http://ajaxian.com/archives/crossframe-a-safe-communication-mechanism-across-documents-and-across-domains .
