cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how?

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From	Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com>
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Subject	cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how?
Date	Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:44:53 -0800
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I have a page that contains an iframe which loads a page from a 
different domain that I do not control. The iframe includes the 
following select:

<select name="promo">
   <OPTION value="NONE" selected>NONE</OPTION>
   <OPTION value="AAA">AAA</OPTION>
</select>

I would like to be able to select AAA using javascript on the parent 
page. I can work with the people who maintain the site that hosts the 
page loaded into the iframe, so I'm wondering if there is some way that 
they cold modify their page that would allow me to execute javascript on 
it from my parent page? Would including window.domain="mydomain.ext" in 
the iframe page, where mydomain.ext is the domain hosting the parent 
page, allow me to access the iframe DOM with javascript?

TIA,
Mike

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cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-19 17:44 -0800
  Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-20 08:18 +0000
  Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2011-12-20 10:14 +0100
  Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Bart Van der Donck <bart@nijlen.com> - 2011-12-20 01:50 -0800
  Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-20 12:14 +0100
  Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2011-12-20 12:28 +0100
    Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-20 17:16 +0100
      Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-23 17:18 -0800
        Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-28 14:50 +0100
          Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-31 16:01 -0800
          Re: cross-scripting issue: use javascript/DOM on iframe loaded from different domain, how? Bart Van der Donck <bart@nijlen.com> - 2012-01-02 00:47 -0800

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