How to pass iframe data to parent window

Question

In a iframe div, I have several pages. whenever user scrolls within that div, I need to update the current page number in parent window (same origin).

To achieve this, I have binded a scroll event to the div element and made the calculations to get current page number in iframe. But, struck how to pass this data to parent window.

Alexis · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-14 11:08:19Z

You can create a function in your parent page.

Parent

function parentcalc(data) { //use your data }

And call this function in the child like this

iframe

parent.parentcalc(mydata);

Quentin · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-14 11:06:36Z

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You can access the parent frame through the parent global variable.

answered Mar 14, 2016 at 11:06

Quentin

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