Access Dynamically Generated Elements in an iFrame

Question

I am using an iFrame to load http://www.amazon.co.uk when i press Amazon UK button and it is loading as well and i browse into sub pages of amazon.co.uk. Now what i want is to get href attribute of tags when i hover on tags or links in this iFrame. Is it possible with Javascript or jQuery Please tell me how?

--This is What i am doing

<div id="amazon_buttons">
    <table border="0">
        <tr>
            <td><a href="../../users/product" target="_top"><input id="cmdback" name="cmdback" type="button" value="Back To IEC" /></a></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><input id="cmdanzuk" name="cmdanzuk" type="button" value="Amazon UK" onclick="open_amazon_page('uk')" /> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><input id="cmdanzde" name="cmdanzde" type="button" value="Amazon DE" onclick="open_amazon_page('de')" /> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><input id="cmdanzfr" name="cmdanzfr" type="button" value="Amazon FR" onclick="open_amazon_page('fr')" /> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><input id="cmdanzes" name="cmdanzes" type="button" value="Amazon ES" onclick="open_amazon_page('es')" /> </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>

<iframe id="azn_iframe" name="azn_iframe" src="" style="clear: both; width: 100%; height:800px;"></iframe>

  $("#azn_iframe").contents().find("a").hover( function () { alert($(this).attr("href")); }); function open_amazon_page($platform) { if($platform == 'uk') azn_iframe.location.href = "http://www.amazon.co.uk"; else if($platform == 'de') azn_iframe.location.href = "http://www.amazon.de"; else if($platform == 'fr') azn_iframe.location.href = "http://www.amazon.fr"; else if($platform == 'es') azn_iframe.location.href = "http://www.amazon.es"; } </script> 

Answer 1

This is not possible, because the iframe is in a different domain from yours. This limitation is a security measure imposed by the browser's same origin policy .

More reading:

• Same origin policy for JavaScript
• Ways to circumvent the same-origin policy
• Disable same origin policy in Chrome
• What is the threat model for the same origin policy?