Re: getting current page content (after DOM mutate)

Ash wrote:
> I may be missing something very obvious here, but:
> 
> I want to read the current page in Firefox when the page has largely
> been laid out using AJAX/Javascript. Specially I want the current text
> (a la IE's innerText) for page generated by Javascript.

.textContent is similar (if not identical) to .innerText.

> Say the current page is my GMail inbox. Now, if I dump
> window.content.document.body.innerHTML, I will only get the static
> HTML as downloaded from GMail which is fairly minimal as its fleshed
> out by later AJAX requests. I don't get the updated HTML/DOM that
> represents the GMail interface including all currently displayed
> messages subjects, labels, etc. (This is just an example, it's not
> only GMail I'm after, it's any page created dynamically on the client
> side) I want the actual contents of the current DOM even if mutated.
> Is this possible?

.innerHTML (or .textContent) gives you what you want. There is likely 
something else that is going wrong.

/ Jonas