Same-origin policy preventing me from getting selected text inside iframe

Asked May 05 '14 at 08:12

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I am trying to read user-selected text inside an iframe from a different origin or domain.

Actual use-case:

There is an iframe on my page with content from another domain
The user highlights some text inside the iframe
The user then clicks a button on the side (outside of the iframe)
The text is then saved and highlighted within the iframe

I took a look at this page about circumventing same-origin policy, but I am not sure which method would be suitable since I am particularly inexperienced in this area. I am looking for a little guidance, thanks in advance!

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I think you are unable to access to the content of an iframe from a different domain – Bernardao May 05 '14 at 08:18
It can't be done, for security reasons. Unless you have control of the domain inside the iframe. – JJJ May 05 '14 at 08:27
I suppose I'll have to create a proxy on my server then, any idea the best way to do that? – adrianmcli May 05 '14 at 08:32
@ibopm Do you control the URL of the IFRAME? – David-SkyMesh May 05 '14 at 09:26
@David-SkyMesh nope, I need to get the selected text inside the iframe. – adrianmcli May 05 '14 at 17:31
@ibopm If you don't control the URL, it will be much harder to implement the proxy. There could be all sorts of content inside the IFRAME which will have HTTP links/includes that are difficult to identify and rewrite. – David-SkyMesh May 05 '14 at 23:04

Same-origin policy preventing me from getting selected text inside iframe

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