JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Name

Frame: a <frame> in an HTML document — DOM Level 2 HTML: Node → Element → HTMLElement → Frame

Properties

As explained in the Description, HTML frames can be accessed as Frame objects or as Window objects. When accessed as Frame objects, they inherit properties from HTMLElement and define these additional properties:

Document contentDocument

The document that holds the content of the frame.

String src

The URL from which the frame’s content was loaded. Setting this property causes the frame to load a new document. This property simply mirrors the src attribute of the HTML <frame> tag: it is not a Location object like Window.location.

In addition to these properties, the Frame object also defines the following properties, which correspond directly to HTML attributes:

Property	Attribute	Description
String frameBorder	frameborder	Set to “0” for borderless frames
String longDesc	longdesc	The URL of a frame description
String marginHeight	marginheight	Top and bottom frame margin, in pixels
String marginWidth	marginwidth	Left and right frame margin, in pixels
String name	name	The name of the frame, for DOM Level 0 lookup and form and link targets
boolean noResize	noresize	If true, user cannot resize frame
String scrolling	scrolling	Frame scroll policy: “auto”, “yes”, or “no”

Description

Frames have a dual nature and may be represented in client-side JavaScript by either Window or Frame objects. In the traditional Level 0 DOM, each <frame> ...