How can I control the background image and colour of a body element within an iframe
? Note, the embedded body element has a class, and the iframe
i
This code uses vanilla JavaScript. It creates a new element. It sets the text content of that element to be a string containing the new CSS. And it appends that element directly to the iframe document's head.
Keep in mind, however, that accessing elements of a document loaded from another origin is not permitted (for security reasons) -- contentDocument
of the iframe
element will evaluate to null when attempted from the browsing context of the page embedding the frame.
var iframe = document.getElementById('the-iframe');
var style = document.createElement('style');
style.textContent =
'body {' +
' background-color: some-color;' +
' background-image: some-image;' +
'}'
;
iframe.contentDocument.head.appendChild(style);