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Hi,

I'm working in a framed environment, and trying to tell if the frame on which some javascript code executes is the top frame (the one that contains the rest).

Up until now I was trying to check it with

window.parent !=null

but it always returns false, like in this simple example.

<html>

<head>
<script>
    alert(parent == null);
</script>
</head>

<body>
    <h1> OH YEAH!</h1>
</body>
</html>

Is there a way to do this? Doesnt have to be portable, right now i'm looking for the IE6 solution.

Thanks in advance.

+3  A: 

Greetings,

I found this pdf to be very useful : http://seclab.stanford.edu/websec/framebusting/framebust.pdf

In short, if this is too long to read, this is what they ultimately propose :

<style>
  html { display :none; }
</style>
<script>
if(self==top){
  document.documentElement.style.display = 'block';
}else{
top.location=self.location;
}
</script>

You will find many other means to do this in this pdf and each means' pro and cons. Obviously, on browsers without javascript, this solution could be painful ;)

T.

tomdemuyt
A: 

You can check if top.frames.length == 0.

Daniel Egeberg
+2  A: 
self === top

should return true if executed in the topmost frameset, false otherwise.

NickFitz