# getElementById in external site

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getelementbyid-in-external-site/224327>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [May 1, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getelementbyid-in-external-site/224327 "2007-05-01T09:32:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![supernerden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@supernerden](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/supernerden)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getelementbyid-in-external-site/224327/1 "2007-05-01T09:32:55Z")

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Is it possible in javascript to fetch an element from a different site?  
In example:

External site:

```auto
....
<div id="foo">....</div>
....

```

My site:

Well… I don’t know, can some of you tell me how I get the content of the div “foo” in a variable?