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### Iframe

An inner frame that works much the HTML iframe element. The src attribute can be used to specify the content of the frame. This content is a separate document. The children of the iframe are ignored.

More information about iframe

The iframe element implements the following interfaces:

nsIAccessibleProvider

Attributes:

src

Properties and Methods:

accessible | contentDocument | contentWindow | docShell | webNavigation

#### Attributes:

##### src

Type: URL

The URL of the page to appear in the iframe.

Inherited from XUL Element:

align | allowevents | allownegativeassertions | class | coalesceduplicatearcs
collapsed | container | containment | context | contextmenu
datasources | dir | empty | equalsize | flags
flex | height | hidden | id | insertafter
insertbefore | left | maxheight | maxwidth | menu
minheight | minwidth | mousethrough | observes | ordinal
orient | pack | persist | popup | position
preference-editable | ref | removeelement | sortDirection | sortResource
sortResource2 | statustext | style | template | tooltip
tooltiptext | top | uri | wait-cursor | width

#### Properties and Methods:

Inherited from XUL Element:

align
allowEvents
blur
boxObject
boxObject.element
boxObject.getLookAndFeelMetric
boxObject.height
boxObject.screenX
boxObject.screenY
boxObject.width
boxObject.x
boxObject.y
builder
className
click
collapsed
contextMenu
controllers
database
datasources
dir
doCommand
flex
focus
getElementsByAttribute
height
hidden
id
left
maxHeight
maxWidth
menu
minHeight
minWidth
observes
ordinal
orient
pack
persist
ref
resource
statusText
style
tooltip
tooltipText
top
width

Inherited from Element:

addEventListener
appendChild
attributes
childNodes
cloneNode
dispatchEvent
firstChild
getAttribute
getAttributeNS
getAttributeNode
getAttributeNodeNS
getElementsByTagName
getElementsByTagNameNS
hasAttribute
hasAttributeNS
hasAttributes
hasChildNodes
insertBefore
isSupported
lastChild
localName
namespaceURI
nextSibling
nodeName
nodeType
nodeValue
normalize
ownerDocument
parentNode
prefix
previousSibling
removeAttribute
removeAttributeNS
removeAttributeNode
removeChild
removeEventListener
replaceChild
setAttribute
setAttributeNS
setAttributeNode
setAttributeNodeNS
tagName

##### accessible

Type: nsIAccessible

Returns the accessibility object for the iframe.

##### contentDocument

Type: document

This read-only property contains the document object in the iframe.

##### contentWindow

Type: window

This read-only property contains the window object in the iframe.

##### docShell

Type: nsIDocShell

Returns the XPCOM object that implements the iframe's document functionality.

##### webNavigation

Type: nsIWebNavigation

This read-only property contains the nsIWebNavigation object for the document.

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