Window: parent 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.
The Window.parent property is a reference to the parent of the current window or subframe.
If a window does not have a parent, its parent property is a reference to itself.
When a window is loaded in an <iframe>, <object>, or <frame>, its parent is the window with the element embedding the window.
Value
A Window or <iframe> object.
Examples
js
if (window.parent !== window.top) { // We're deeper than one down } Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML # dom-parent-dev |
Browser compatibility
See also
window.frameElementreturns the specific element (such as<iframe>) thewindowis embedded into.window.topreturns a reference to the top-level window.