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Hi there, I would like to get elements from another window I open, but I can't seem to get it to work. It would be something like that (in this example, I try to get all anchor links from CSSBeauty homepage) :
var myWin = window.open("http://www.cssbeauty.com");
myWin.onload = function() {
var links = myWin.document.getElementsByTagName("a");
alert(links.length);
window.close();
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For security purposes this make complete sense..
Have a look at the error your code generates > "uncaught exception: Permission denied to set property Window.onload"
You're getting this error because your script does not reside on the same domain as www.cssbeauty.com & you therefor cannot access/set properties to elements residing on that domain. If you could then spoofing any website would be all too easy. So essentially you can only access the DOM for popups/frame content etc. that reside on the same domain as the script that you're trying to access them from.
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