Get HTML inside iframe using jQuery

Question

Here is my situation.

I have a file called iframe.html, which contains the code to for a image slideshow. The code is somewhat like

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Answer 1

This line will retrieve the whole HTML code of the frame. By using other methods instead of innerHTML you can traverse DOM of the inner document.

document.getElementById('iframe').contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML

Thing to remember is that this will work only if the frame source is on the same domain. If it is from a different domain, cross-site-scripting (XSS) protection will kick in.