Problem Finding Page Data Var

[Jon_King]

Can someone show me how to grab the translated text from a call to the G translator and put it into a javascript var?

A typical example below:

[translate.google.com...]

In the above url example I'm wishing to translate 'agua' to 'water' then return the result 'water' in a js var and not display the G result page. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[RonPK]

The translation is put into a DIV with the ID 'result_box':

<div id=result_box dir=ltr>water </div>

If your script would run on that page, you could simply read

document.getElementById('result_box').innerHTML

. Problem is that your script does not run on that page, so it cannot access any property.

So you'll need a server side script that fetches the Google translated page and that parses the translated text. Might be against Google's TOS...

[Jon_King]

I realize the parsing server side problem now. Thanks RonPK.