FAQ Topic - How do I communicate between frames in a web browser? (2007-12-17)

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FAQ Topic - How do I communicate between frames in a web
browser?
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To reference another frame, you simply need to step through the
frame hierarchy: ` parent ` is the page the frame is defined
in, ` parent.framename ` is another frame in the same frameset.
To access a variable called Moomin in a frame called Snork you
would use ` parent.Snork.Moomin `. To call the function Snufkin
in that frame you would use ` parent.Snork.Snufkin() `.


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