Question

I’d like to be able to load an external site into a div – for example googles homepage.

Ive tried:

$('#myDiv').load("http://www.google.com");

with no such luck.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

What you want to do is dangerous and should be avoided. You’ve given an example of cross-domain requests and most browsers block you from doing this. You’re violating the same-origin policy.

Use an <iframe src="http://www.google.com"></iframe> if you really have to.

There’s also a supposed solution with jQuery and YQL, but I’ll let you sniff that one out.