Window: frameElement property

BaselineWidely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

TheWindow.frameElement propertyreturns the element (such as<iframe> or<object>)in which the window is embedded.

Note:Despite this property's name, it works for documents embeddedwithin any embedding point, including<object>,<iframe>, or<embed>.

Value

The element which the window is embedded into. If the window isn't embedded intoanother document, or if the document into which it's embedded has a differentorigin, the value isnull 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/";}