How to access parent Iframe from JavaScript

Question

Well, I have an IFrame, which calls a same domain page. My problem is that I want to access some information from this parent Iframe from this called page (from JavaScript).

Answer 1

you can use parent to access the parent page. So to access a function it would be:

var obj = parent.getElementById('foo');

Answer 2

// just in case some one is searching for a solution
function get_parent_frame_dom_element(win)
{
    win = (win || window);
    var parentJQuery = window.parent.jQuery;
    var ifrms = parentJQuery("iframe.upload_iframe");
    for (var i = 0; i < ifrms.length; i++)
    {
        if (ifrms[i].contentDocument === win.document)
            return ifrms[i];
    }
    return null;
}

Answer 3

Old question, but I just had this same issue and found a way to get the iframe. It's simply a matter of iterating through the parent window's frames[] array and testing each frame's contentWindow against the window in which your code is running. Example:

var arrFrames = parent.document.getElementsByTagName("IFRAME");
for (var i = 0; i < arrFrames.length; i++) {
  if (arrFrames[i].contentWindow === window) alert("yay!");
}

Or, using jQuery:

parent.$("iframe").each(function(iel, el) {
  if(el.contentWindow === window) alert("got it");
});

This method saves assigning an ID to each iframe, which is good in your case as they are dynamically created. I couldn't find a more direct way, since you can't get the iframe element using window.parent - it goes straight to the parent window element (skipping the iframe). So looping through them seems the only way, unless you want to use IDs.