HTMLIFrameElement: src property

Baseline Widely available

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

The HTMLIFrameElement.src A string that reflects the src HTML attribute, containing the address of the content to be embedded.

Note that programmatically removing an <iframe>'s src attribute (e.g. via Element.removeAttribute()) causes about:blank to be loaded in the frame.

Syntax

js
src = iframeElt.src
iframeElt.src= src

Example

js
const iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
iframe.src = "/";
const body = document.querySelector("body");
body.appendChild(iframe); // Fetch the image using the complete URL as the referrer

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-iframe-src

Browser compatibility

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See also