Re: [jQuery] Get font-family from iframe

2010-02-18 Thread jordanrynard
Wow, you're absolutely right -- I didn't even bother to try any other browsers as it's just the sort of thing I wouldn't think would be the result of a 'browser issue'. I tested this code in recent versions of IE, Chrome, Opera, and Safari, and it works perfectly. In Firefox 3.5.7 this appears

Re: [jQuery] Get font-family from iframe

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vanherpe (T T nv)
I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to do, maybe if you gave us an explanation of your overall goal we could help you better. There might be other ways to do what you're trying that might not even involve javascript and work everywhere. FWiW, this behaviour is in FF 3.6 too Jonathan

Re: [jQuery] Get font-family from iframe

2010-02-18 Thread jordanrynard
I have just downloaded the latest trunk nightly build for Firefox (Minefield), and this bug has been fixed in this version. So now I just have to wait for it to be released!! jordanrynard wrote: Wow, you're absolutely right -- I didn't even bother to try any other browsers as it's just the

Re: [jQuery] Get font-family from iframe

2010-02-18 Thread jordanrynard
I have two documents: The parent, and the iframe. When activated, the parent document dynamically appends an instance of tinymce to itself. It retrieves the content for the editor (tinymce) from a selected element in the iframe. The style of text displayed in tinymce is identical to the style

Re: [jQuery] Get font-family from iframe

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vanherpe (T T nv)
So you're basically writing a preview window or something for tinyMCE? I can't really think of a different way of doing this, unless you want to implement autosave and reload the content periodically with AJAX. Jonathan jordanrynard wrote: I have two documents: The parent, and the iframe.

Re: [jQuery] Get font-family from iframe

2010-02-17 Thread Jonathan Vanherpe (T T nv)
does every browser do that? jordanrynard wrote: I'm trying to retrieve the current font from an element that is within an iframe... unsuccessfully. From within the document itself I can retrieve the font just fine using the following: $(document).ready(function(){ var

Re: [jQuery] Get font-family from iframe

2010-02-17 Thread Jonathan Vanherpe (T T nv)
I didn't see you posted azn example page. When testing it, I found that both Opera and Chromium returned the correct thing but they format it differently. Opera alerts Comic Sans MS [microsoft]. I actually like how Opera alerts the font you're actually using instead of the whole font stack,