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    copied!<p>I'm trying to make a bookmarklet that does something with the selected text on any given website, but I'm having trouble when the selected text is in an iframe.</p> <p>The bookmarklet link looks like:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a id="bookmarklet" href="javascript:(function(){if(window.myBookmarklet!==undefined) {myBookmarklet();} else{document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://www.mywebsite.com/bookmarklet.js?';}})(); "&gt;Bookmarklet&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>And bookmarklet.js looks like:</p> <pre><code>(function(){ var v = "1.3.2"; if (window.jQuery === undefined || window.jQuery.fn.jquery &lt; v) { var done = false; var script = document.createElement("script"); script.src = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/" + v + "/jquery.min.js"; script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function(){ if (!done &amp;&amp; (!this.readyState || this.readyState == "loaded" || this.readyState == "complete")) { done = true; initBookmarklet(); } }; document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script); } else { initBookmarklet(); } function initBookmarklet() { (window.myBookmarklet = function() { if($('iframe').length &gt; 0) { $('iframe').each(function(){ var iframe = $(this).get(0); var win= iframe.contentWindow? iframe.contentWindow : iframe.contentDocument.defaultView; alert (win.getSelection().toString()); }); } })(); } })(); </code></pre> <p>I tested a few things - I can definitely get the frame object, and return its html, but getSelection just returns empty.</p> <p>Is it a cross domain thing, because my bookmarklet.js is somewhere else? </p> <p>UPDATE: For reference, the page I am specifically trying this on is this one: <a href="http://cases.iclr.co.uk/Subscr/search.aspx?path=WLR%20Dailies/WLRD%202011/wlrd2012-246" rel="nofollow">http://cases.iclr.co.uk/Subscr/search.aspx?path=WLR%20Dailies/WLRD%202011/wlrd2012-246</a></p>
 

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