HTMLIFrameElement: contentDocument 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.

If the iframe and the iframe's parent document are Same Origin, returns a Document (that is, the active document in the inline frame's nested browsing context), else returns null.

Example of contentDocument

js
const iframeDocument = document.querySelector("iframe").contentDocument; iframeDocument.body.style.backgroundColor = "blue"; // This would turn the iframe blue. 

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-iframe-contentdocument

Browser compatibility