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HTMLIFrameElement: contentDocument property

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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

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If the iframe and the iframe's parent document are Same Origin, returns a Document (that is, the active document in the inline frame's nested browsing context), else returns null.

Example of contentDocument

js
const iframeDocument = document.querySelector("iframe").contentDocument;

iframeDocument.body.style.backgroundColor = "blue";
// This would turn the iframe blue.

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HTML
# dom-iframe-contentdocument

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