Find most upper parent window with javascript

Question

How to find the most parent body element of a document, if you're using a lot of frames. Inside a iframe that also is in a few iframes, I want to call a function for the most upper document body.

The following works, except that you have to count for the parents each time.

$(parent.parent.parent.parent.document.body).function('loading');

Isn't there something like this?;

$(parentOfAllParents.document.body).function('loading');

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '12 at 12:31

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This does the trick from any iframe: top.window.document.body

answered Dec 12 '12 at 12:31

Teemu

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 12 '12 at 12:41

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Use window.top.

Specification is here.

edited Dec 12 '12 at 12:41

Alexander

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answered Dec 12 '12 at 12:33

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Find most upper parent window with javascript

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