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FRAME Element Object
Properties
borderColor
NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3/J1 IE3/J2 IE4 IE5 IE5.5
Compatibility ✓ ✓ ✓
Example
Although you may experience problems (especially in IE5) changing the color of
a single frame border, the W3C DOM syntax would look like the following if the
script were inside the framesetting document:
document.getElementById(“contentsFrame”).borderColor = “red”
The IE-only version would be:
document.all[“contentsFrame”].borderColor = “red”
These examples assume the frame name arrives to a script function as a string. If
the script is executing in one of the frames of the frameset, add a reference to parent
in the preceding statements.
contentDocument
FRAME.contentDocument
NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3/J1 IE3/J2 IE4 IE5 IE5.5
Compatibility ✓
Example
A framesetting document script might be using the ID of a FRAME element to
read or adjust one of the element properties, and then need to perform some action
on the content of the page through its document object. You can get the reference
to the document object via a statement, such as the following:
var doc = document.getElementById(“FRAME3”).contentDocument
Then your script can, for example, dive into a form in the document:
var val = doc.mainForm.entry.value