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.

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
# dom-iframe-src

Browser compatibility

desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
src

See also