Frame manipulation

[vangoz]

I want to make a page consisting of two frames. The first frame would load the second frame and manipulate its content after finished loading. How can I do this?
I've tried putting this code in the first frame, but no result.

parent.secondframe.onload = function(){ //manipulation here}
parent.secondframe.location = the_url;

I've also tried reversing those lines, still no luck. Anybody has suggestion?

[gil davis]

If "the_url" is not on the same server as the script, you will not be able to manipulate it. It is a browser security feature.

[vangoz]

So that's why.. thanks for the answer.
What I want to do is displaying a page from a url and put some things on top of that page (like text/image) without modifying the page content. Is there any way to do this? Using frame, iframe, div or anything else?

[gil davis]

You can do anything you want outside of the iframe containing the foreign URL. However, you cannot access the iframe for information either, probably not even the location.