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QUESTION POSED ON: 23 January 2004
On a Web page I am displaying a form using iframe. On clicking one event (outside the iframe), I want to access the form fields (in iframe) through Javascript. Would you please suggest how to do that? Thanks in advance.

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To set yourName to the value of the field "yourname" of the myForm form in the iframe, try this.

var iframe = document.getElementById
("myFrame");
var iframeDoc = iframe.Document;   
var iframeForm = iframeDoc.
getElementById("myForm");
var yourName = iframeForm.
yourname.value;

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