Getting Title 2

jammer1221 · Dec 29, 2004

Hey everyone, I was wondering how you get the title tag of a page inside of an Iframe. I know you can edit the main page's title tag with the document.title but how would you find the title inside the iframe which is inside the main document.

chessbot · Dec 29, 2004

First: How can an iframe have a visible title? Why would you want to access it, since it is never displayed?

Anyway, how about document.frames['myiframe'].document.title?

--Chessbot

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jtreefrog · Dec 29, 2004

You can use the frames collection:

if your iframe's name was "theFrame", you could use this:

alert(frames['theFrame'].document.title);

Here's a test I did. Call this first one "test.html":

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>This is the main page title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Iframe below:</p>
<p><button onClick="alert(document.title);">Click for the main title</button></p>
<p><button onClick="alert(frames['theFrame'].document.title);">Click for the iFrame title</button></p>
<iframe src="iframe.html" name="theFrame" id="theFrame" height="30" width="30"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

And here's the code for iframe.html

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>The IFrame Title</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFF00">
i Frame
</body>
</html>

Have fun

Jon

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jammer1221 · Dec 29, 2004

Wow you guys are fast, cheesbot I must not of explained well enough but both of you guys answered the question...Thanks alot

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