Invoking JavaScript code in an iframe from the parent page

Question

Basically, I have an iframe embedded in a page and the iframe has some JavaScript routines I need to invoke from the parent page.

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Answer 1

Just for the record, I've ran into the same issue today but this time the page was embedded in an object, not an iframe (since it was an XHTML 1.1 document). Here's how it works with objects:

document
  .getElementById('targetFrame')
  .contentDocument
  .defaultView
  .targetFunction();

(sorry for the ugly line breaks, didn't fit in a single line)