Window: frameElement property

The Window.frameElement property returns the element (such as iframe or object) in which the window is embedded.

NOTE: Despite this property's name, it works for documents embedded within any embedding point, including object, iframe, or embed.

Value

The element which the window is embedded into. If the window isn't embedded into another document, or if the document into which it's embedded has a different origin, the value is null instead.

Examples

const frameEl = window.frameElement;
// If we're embedded, change the containing element's URL to 'https://mozilla.org/'
if (frameEl) {
  frameEl.src = "https://mozilla.org/";
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• window.frames returns an array-like object, listing the direct sub-frames of the current window.
• window.parent returns the parent window, which is the window containing the frameElement of the child window.