I need to fetch body tag from the url which i open. I am using following code but it is not working. Please suggest.
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML;
Thanks Tanu
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1Insufficient information in this question to know what might be going on. More of the relevant code and timing of calling this code is needed. – jfriend00 Jan 23 '12 at 13:47
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Copy below code in url navigation bar. See, whole body content alerted.
javascript:(alert(document.body.innerHTML));
Its means you can get the body content by just body.innerHTML. you don't require to use getElementsByTagName.
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It wouldn't do. [You can't run JS from the addressbar in Firefox](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6643414/javascript-alert-not-working-in-firefox-6) – Quentin Jan 23 '12 at 13:33
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yes. you are correct :) it works in IE,chrome. but, now you would have got at least the answer to your question. – Umesh Patil Jan 23 '12 at 13:41
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Did you try document.body.innerHTML?
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ya i tried. It is working fine on chrome but not working on Firefox 8.Please suggest – Tanu Garg Jan 23 '12 at 13:27
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Here is my simple test
<html>
<head>
<title>TEST </title>
<script type="text/javascript">
MyFunction = function () {
alert(document.body.innerHTML);
};
</script>
</head>
<body onload="MyFunction();">
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
it's working on FF
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Assuming that:
- The script runs after the document has loaded
- The script is running on the page that you want the body content from (which would not include the address bar in Firefox).
That that will work, although it is uglier than document.body.innerHTML.
