Name
parent — NN 2 IE 3 DOM n/a
Synopsis
Read-only
Returns a reference to the parent window object
whose document defined the frameset in which the current frame is
specified. Use parent in building a reference from
one child frame to variables or methods in the parent document or to
variables, methods, and objects in another child frame. For example,
if a script in one child frame must reference the content of a text
input form element in the other child frame (named
“content”), the reference would be:
parent.content.document.forms[0].entryField.value
For more deeply nested frames, you can access the parent of a parent
with syntax such as: parent.parent.frameName.
Example
parent.frames[1].document.forms[0].companyName.value = "MegaCorp"
Value
window object reference.
Default
None.
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