Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on things like StackOverflow, #jquery IRC, and other places asking about doing things like manipulating iframes. And in each and every case, the petitioning (though rarely aspiring) coder gets an answer about how to get, set, add, or remove some aspect of the iframe document object. And, inevitably, they come back and say that it doesn’t work. Now, at this point, there can be only one of two possible reasons for that.

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