Is it possible to check for the id of the parent iframe?

Question

Let's say that I've got a page in an iframe.

So...

top page {
iframed page{
}
}

Now, I want to give the iframe page an id.

From within the code on the iframed page, can I check to see if the value of the id of the iframed page is equal to something?

if ($('#iframeid', window.parent.document))

doesn't seem to work.

content in iframes can't reach out to affect its enclosing page(s). it'd be a pretty bad security issue if they could. — Marc B, Nov 20 '13 at 21:36
what you have is correct (for same domain) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/726816/how-to-write-this-in-jquery-window-parent-document-getelementbyidparentprice — Christophe, Nov 20 '13 at 22:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '13 at 21:42

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If it's Chrome or Firefox, you should be able to do:

 window.frameElement.id

inside the iframe to get the id of the iframe itself.

answered Nov 20 '13 at 21:42

dave

why only Chrome of Firefox? – Christophe Nov 20 '13 at 21:49
according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.frameElement Opera and Safari may not support it. Apparently IE does support it though, didn't notice that (most likely because I dont care about IE) – dave Nov 20 '13 at 21:52

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