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I want to include a certain div from another url into my site

I have this
<div>
<object type="text/html" data="https://www.urlIWantTheDivFrom.com"
width="800px" height="600px">
</object>
/div>
However this gives me the whole webpage. I want to copy a certain div. I also tried some js. However I cannot find out how to copy the exact div as well
document.getElementById("div").innerHTML='<object type="text/html" data="https://www.urlIWantTheDivFrom.com" ></object>';

Embedding another webpage content is not allowed by default, but here is a thing which you may try using jQuery ajax:
$.get('https://www.urlIWantTheDivFrom.com', function(pageText){
// Appends to your div
$('#myDiv').append(
$(pageText) // parses returned html
.find('#externalDiv') // gets it div
);
})
But remember that online content publisher still has rights over his content, also remember that some tags link may be broken after importing.

How to use javascript to locate and click an element in an iFrame

Using Javascript in a webBrowser Control in a form, How do I switch to a iFrame
<iframe id="ContentFrame" class="contentIFrame" onload="checkComplementaryPage()" onmouseover="hoverMenu('dividers')" name="ContentFrame" src="HomeContainer.aspx" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0"></iframe><div id="footer" class="footer">
and then locate and click on an element inside that iFrame?
<div class="innerItem50L">
<input type="submit" name="btnPunch" value="punch" id="btnPunch" style="CURSOR:hand;" />
</div>
I am new to programming and am starting with c#. I know even less about Javascript...

Using the following thread as an example:
Make an event happen in child iframe to the parent window in JavaScript?
You could do the following:
$('#ContentFrame').contents().find('#btnPunch').click();
Note: The iframe's source has to be from the same domain, and contents must be loaded so you should put it after window load.

Append iframe to div without refreshing

I have a html structure like:
<div id="bar">
<iframe id="foo"></iframe>
<iframe id="foo2"></iframe>
</div>
Each iframe has javaScript running inside it.
Now: I need to add another element... <iframe id="foo3"></iframe> to the end of the div without foo & foo2 from refreshing. I thought jQueries.append() was the way to do this, but this still refreshes the original iframes (Which resets the javaScript inside the already existing iframes).
Any tips/ideas? Thanks

Below will be the code
document.getElementById("bar").innerHTML += '<iframe id="foo3"></iframe>';
Not sure if it will refresh the other iframes

Hiding a div that contains an iframe

I have a div that contains the iframe, this iframe loads a URL which shows a page.
Within the iframe, i have a close button which when clicked, hides the div. But I am unable to access the div from within the iframe.
My code as below
<div class="app" id="modalOverlay" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.5);position:absolute;z-index:1;width:100%;height:100%;top: 0;left: 0;">
<div id="modalContainer" style="position:absolute;z-index:2;margin: -250px 0 0 -250px;top: 50%;left: 50%;background-color: #222;width: 500px;height: 500px;">
<a class="close" style="position:relative;top:-10px;z-index:3">Close</a>
<iframe src="http://www.local.dev/api/v1/track" frameborder="0" style="width:500px;height:500px;position:relative;top:-20px">
</iframe>
</div>
</div>
Within the iframe src view, i load a js which uses jquery
$(document).on('click','.close',function(){
$(document).closest('.app').remove();
});
Anyway to do this?

you can use:
$('#modalContainer', window.parent.document);
second parameter is the context in which to search.
$(document).on('click','.close',function(){
$('.app', window.parent.document).remove();
});

Try something like this:
$('#divtohide', window.parent.document).hide();
Or something like this:
$("#InFrameId").on('click', function() {
$('#divtohide', window.parent.document).hide();
});
EDIT: based on the recent update to your question if the frame is from a different domain, browser will flag this as XSS and you may not be able to do much. One way you can run scripts is if the server of the iframe is configured to send the X-XSS-Protection header with correct value.

This can be done with child to parent frame messaging.
Have the parent frame listen for a message.
<div id="myDiv">
<iframe src="childFrame.html" id="frame1"></iframe>
</div>
<script>
window.onmessage = function(e) {
if(e.data == "close") $("#myDiv").toggle();
}
</script>
The child frame can send a message to the parent frame.
<button onclick="parent.postMessage('close', '*');">Hide</button>
See my gist: https://gist.github.com/sfarthin/9140403
DhruvJoshi's method will have the browser flag this as a XSS attack.

Simply you can't, according to your code, I think your iframe comes from different domain, so a frame from different domain cant access to parent page.
Therefore you may consider using nodejs or maybe, you should read this: Cross domain iframe issue or a search with "crossdomain iframe" keywords will lead you to what you need.

Better alternative to an iframe to display tab content?

I have a page with an iframe to feature the contents of the clicked tab. There are 3 tabs and 1 iframe. The sources of the contents relating to each tab clicked are formatted and coded in other html & css files.
What is another alternative to using an iframe, because I noticed that when the tab is clicked, it still shows the white background, similar to when a new page is loading?
Here's my code:
<div id="tabs">
<div id="overview">
<a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="toframe.html">Overviews</a>
</div>
<div id="gallery">
<a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="tawagpinoygallery.html">Gallery</a>
</div>
<div id="reviews">
<a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="trframe.html">Reviews</a>
</div>
</div>
<div id="tabs-1">
<iframe src="toframe.html" name= "tabsa" width="95%" height="100%" frameborder="0">
</iframe>
</div>

The only alternative to using IFRAMEs to load dynamic content (after the page has loaded) is using AJAX to update a container on your web page. It's pretty elegant and usually faster than loading a full page structure into an IFRAME.
Ajax with JQuery (use this and you will be loved on SO; the AJAX functions are great and simple)
Ajax with Prototype
Ajax with MooTools
Standalone Ajax with Matt Kruse's AJAX toolbox (Used to use this, using JQuery today because I needed a framework)
AJAX with Dojo (Said to be fast, but AJAX is not as straightforward)

Another alternative is to use AJAX to load the content of a tab and use a div to display the content. I would suggest that using an existing Tab library might be an option rather than trying to solve all the problems associated with creating tabs.
Maybe the jQuery UI Tab might be helpful here if you like to try it.
EDIT: AJAX example with UI Tabs.
First, the HTML will look like this.
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><span>Overviews</span></li>
<li><span>Gallery</span></li>
<li><span>Reviews</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
Then make sure that you import the appropriate jQuery files:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
etc...
Then add the code to create the tabs:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#tabs").tabs();
});
</script>

There's an alternative to AJAX!
You can load ALL three possible contents into separate DIVs.
Then clicking on a tab will simply make the display attribute of the appropriate content's DIV "block" while making the other two DIVs' display property "none".
Cheap, easy, does not require AJAX costs for extra http request or for coding.
Mind you, AJAX is a better solution if the contents of the tabs will change dynamically based on other data as opposed to being known at the time the page loads.

You don't need script.
<ul><li>foo link<li>bar link</ul>
<div class="tab" id="foo">foo contents</div>
<div class="tab" id="bar">bar contents</div>
Plus this CSS, in most browsers: .tab:not(:target) { display: none !important; }, which defaults to all content visible if :target isn't supported (any modern browser supports it).
If you're showing content with script, always hide it with script. Let it degrade gracefully if that script doesn't run.

It's probably better to load in the content for each tab into DIVs on the same page and then switch the visibility of each DIV when a tab button is clicked using JavaScript and the CSS display property.
If you can't do that then iframe is probably the best solution. You can make the iframe background transparent, see below:
<iframe src="toframe.html" name= "tabsa" width="95%" height="100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
You would then need to add the following CSS to the BODY element using:
BODY { Background: transparent; }

The HTML iframe is to be used to include/display non-template content, such as a PDF file. It's considered bad practice when used for template content (i.e. HTML), in both the SEO and UX opinions.
In your case you just want to have a tabbed panel. This can be solved in several ways:
Have a bunch of links as tabs and a bunch of div's as tab contents. Initially only show the first tab content and hide all others using CSS display: none;. Use JavaScript to toggle between tabs by setting CSS display: block; (show) and display: none; (hide) on the tab content divs accordingly.
Have a bunch of links as tabs and one div as tab contents. Use Ajax to get the tab content asynchronously and use JavaScript to replace the current tab contents with the new content.
Have a bunch of links as tabs and one div as tab contents. Let each link send a different GET request parameter or pathinfo representing the clicked tab. Use server-side flow-control (PHP's if(), or JSP's <c:if>, etc) or include capabilities (PHP's include(), or JSP's <jsp:include>, etc) to include the desired tab content depending on the parameter/pathinfo.
When going for the JavaScript based approach, I can warmly recommend to adopt jQuery for this.

This is jQuery example that includes another html page into your document. This is much more SEO friendly than iframe. In order to be sure that the bots are not indexing the included page just add it to disallow in robots.txt
<html>
<header>
<script src="/js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript">
</header>
<body>
<div id='include-from-outside'></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$('#include-from-outside').load('http://example.com/included.html');
</script>
</body>
</html>
You could also include jQuery directly from Google: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/ - this means optional auto-inclusion of newer versions and some significant speed increase. Also, means that you have to trust them for delivering you just the jQuery ;)

As mentioned, you could use jQuery or another library to retrieve the contents of the HTML file and populate it into the div. Then you could even do a fancy fade to make it look all pretty.
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.get
Something along these lines:
$.get("toframe.html", function(data){
$("#tabs-1").html(data);
});
edit..
you could prepopulate or onclick you could do the get dynamically
$("#tabs a").click(function(){
var pagetoget = $(this).attr("href");
$.get...
})
If you prepopulate could have three containers instead of the one you have now, 2 hidden, 1 display, and the click functions will hide them all except for the one you want.
The get is less code though, easier time.