How do you write text to an inline frame?

[Basscyst]

I've tried this among others -

document.getElementById('pane').document.write("hello");



<iframe src="blank.html" id="pane" height="300" width="600"></iframe>

Nothing seems to be working is it possible?

Thanks -
Basscyst

[Basscyst]

Ahh I fingered it out you have to open it to write to it. Thanks anyway.

window.pane.document.open();
window.pane.document.write("Hello");
window.pane.document.close();

[cheesebag]

Not really. document.write() automatically calls document.open() (and document.clear()) on a closed document. Your first attempt wasn't working because .getElementById() returns the element object, which doesn't have a document property. The second attempt uses a frame reference (same as window.frames.frame_name), returning the window object representing the iframe, which has the iframe's document object (like all window objects) as a property. Might try:

function IFRAME_write(iframe_id, HTML)
{
     var IFrameDoc, oIframe = document.getElementById(iframe_id);
     if (typeof oIframe != 'undefined')
     {
          if (oIframe.contentDocument) 
               IFrameDoc = oIframe.contentDocument; 
          else if (oIframe.contentWindow) 
               IFrameDoc = oIframe.contentWindow.document;
          else if (oIframe.document) 
               IFrameDoc = oIframe.document;
          if (IFrameDoc)
          {
               IFrameDoc.write(HTML);
               IFrameDoc.close();
          }
     }
}

[Basscyst]

Understood. Thanks.