writing from iframe to the outside web page

Question

HI, I have a iframe in my web site and i need to write something in to a div outside of the iframe when a button is clicked, this is not working with the regular

$('#id').html("write something");

any ideas how to do this? Thank you very much

Answer 1

$('#id', window.parent.document).html('write something');

Obviously this assumes that the parent and the iframe are on the same domain otherwise you will not be able to manipulate the parent from the child neither the parent will be able to manipulate the child (if they are not from the same family :-))