I need a user to navigate to a certain page that has a certain div full of useful text. Then click my bookmarklet and send the text in that div back to my server, which is
Here is an example to post text to a remote server. And you can print javascript in the remote server if you want to change the page you have the Iframe on to say something like success. Or a popup saying it finished. On the remote server you can print this to make a popup:
<script> parent.document.getElementById('postmessage').style.display='block'; parent.alert('Successfully posted');</script>
On the webpage you want to send information from make a form and Iframe like this.
<span id="postmessage" style="display:none">Success Message</span>
<form action="http://www.remoteserver.com/upload_test.php" method="post" target="post_to_iframe">
<input type="hidden" value="the text to send to remote server" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<!-- When you submit the form it will submit to this iFrame without refreshing the page and it will make the popup and display the message. -->
<iframe name="post_to_iframe" style="width: 600px; height: 500px;"></iframe>
Generate a form (with DOM) and POST the data (you might want to target an iframe, but it will be fire and forget).
Use javascript to create an iframe. Then add a form to the iframe and submit it. Once the form has been submitted, the onload callback will fire.
var i=document.createElement('iframe');
i.setAttribute('name', 'frame-id');
i.setAttribute('id', 'frame-id');
i.setAttribute('allowtransparency', 'true');
i.setAttribute('style', 'border: 0; width: 1px; height: 1px; position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;');
i.setAttribute('onload', 'iframeFormSubmitted();');
document.body.appendChild(i);
var html = '<html><body>' +
'<form action="/post_url" method="post" id="iframe-form" accept-charset="utf-8">' +
'<input type="hidden" name="id" value="' + your_text + '"/>' +
'</form>' +
'<scr'+"ipt>var e=encodeURIComponent,w=window,d=document,f=d.getElementById('f');" +
"d.getElementById('iframe-form').submit();" +
'</scr'+"ipt></body></html>";
window.frames['frame-id'].document.write(html);