Awesome! :) This is exactly what I needed. It works perfectly in IE
and Safari.
5-Stars to your post. Thank you so MUCH!
On Aug 13, 11:43 am, "Jeffrey Kretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The basic problem here is that IE has security restrictions about moving
> elements between frames. You can't create an element in one frame and add
> it to another.
>
> For example, this code will always fail in IE:
>
> var doc = $('#testframe')[0].contentWindow.document;
>
> $('<span>test</span>').appendTo(doc.body);
>
> Because it is creating the element in the default context, which is the
> parent document, and then adding it to the iframe's document, which is in a
> completely different context.
>
> However, this came up in 1.1.2 and a fix was added to the "clean" method
> (the method that creates new html elements) which will use the context of
> the supplied element to create the new element. This was released in 1.1.3.
> So the following code WILL work in IE:
>
> var doc = $('#testframe')[0].contentWindow.document;
>
> $(doc.body).append('<span>test</span>');
>
> Because it is using the iframe document as the context to create the new
> element in, so no security violation.
>
> JK
>
> _____
>
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Matt Stith
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 9:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [jQuery] Re: how to use $(html) to create element in another frame?
>
> Hmm.. try:
>
> $("<div>bbbb</div>").appendTo($(document.blahblah));
