Window: frames 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.
Returns the window itself, which is an array-like object, listing the direct sub-frames of the current window.
Value
A list of frame objects. It is similar to an
array in that it has a length
property and its items can be accessed
using the [i]
notation.
frames === window
evaluates to true.- Each item in the
window.frames
pseudo-array represents theWindow
object corresponding to the given<frame>
's or<iframe>
's content, not theframe
oriframe
DOM element (i.e.,window.frames[0]
is the same thing asdocument.getElementsByTagName("iframe")[0].contentWindow
). - For more details about the returned value, refer to this thread on mozilla.dev.platform.
Examples
js
const frames = window.frames; // or const frames = window.parent.frames;
for (let i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
// do something with each subframe as frames[i]
frames[i].document.body.style.background = "red";
}
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML # dom-frames-dev |
Browser compatibility
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- Full support
- Full support
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