Get Etherpad Pad contents in Javascript

function getElementByIdInFrames(id, base) { var el; if(el = base.document.getElementById(id)) { return el; }

for(var i = 0, len = base.frames.length; i < len; i++) { if(el = getElementByIdInFrames(id, base.frames\[i\])) { return el; } } } getElementByIdInFrames("innerdocbody", window).innerHTML;

This means you can also do…

getElementByIdInFrames("innerdocbody", window).innerHTML = "Superducky";

And if you want to use jQuery a one liner will sort you out..

console.log($('iframe\[name="ace\_outer"\]').contents().find('iframe').contents().find("#innerdocbody"));

NOTE: Due to a change in the jQuery API a . after iframe was removed – 10/02/2013

Means you can do..

$('iframe\[name="ace\_outer"\]').contents().find('iframe').contents().find("#innerdocbody").html("Superducky");

Thanks to Mark Fisher for the jQuery example