Window: frameElement property

Baseline Widely 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/";}