Name

parentWindow — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read-only

Returns a reference to the window object (which may be a frame in a frameset) that contains the current document. You can use this reference to access the window’s properties and methods directly. The returned value is the same as the window reference from the document.

Example

var siblingCount = document.parentWindow.frames.length

Value

Element object reference.

Default

window object.

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