webNavigation.getFrame()

Retrieves information about a particular frame. A frame may be the top-level frame in a tab or a nested <iframe>, and is uniquely identified by a tab ID and a frame ID.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

js
let gettingFrame = browser.webNavigation.getFrame(
  details                // object
)

Parameters

details

object. Information about the frame to retrieve information about. Must include one of tabId, frameId, or documentId.

tabId Optional

integer. The ID of the tab in which the frame is.

processId Optional

integer. This value is not set in modern browsers. When it was set, it represented the ID of the process running the renderer for this tab.

frameId Optional

integer. The ID of the frame in the given tab.

documentId Optional

string. The UUID of the frame's document.

Must include one of

Return value

A Promise that is fulfilled with an object containing these properties:

errorOccurred

boolean. True if the last navigation in this frame was interrupted by an error, i.e., the onErrorOccurred event fired.

url

string. The URL associated with this frame, if the frame identified by frameId existed at one point in the tab identified by tabId. The fact that a URL is associated with a given frameId does not imply that the corresponding frame still exists.

frameType

string. The type of frame. Returns the values "outermost_frame", "fenced_frame", or "sub_frame" .

parentFrameId

integer. ID of this frame's parent. This is -1 if there is no parent frame: that is, if this frame is the top-level browsing context in the tab.

documentId

string. A UUID of the frame's document.

parentDocumentId

string. A UUID of the parent document owning the frame. Not set if there is no parent.

documentLifecycle

string. The lifecycle the document is in. Returns the values "prerender", "active", "cached", or "pending_deletion".

If the tab is discarded, the promise will instead resolve with a null value. If the specified tab or frame ID could not be found, or some other error occurs, the promise will be rejected with an error message.

Examples

js
function onGot(frameInfo) {
  console.log(frameInfo);
}

function onError(error) {
  console.log(`Error: ${error}`);
}

let gettingFrame = browser.webNavigation.getFrame({
  tabId: 19,
  frameId: 1537,
});

// Edge specific - processId is required not optional, must be integer not null
// let gettingFrame = browser.webNavigation.getFrame({ tabId: 19, processId: 0, frameId: 1537 });

gettingFrame.then(onGot, onError);

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
getFrame
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 16 (Release date: 2011-12-13)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 47 (Release date: 2016-06-07)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14 (Release date: 2020-09-16)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support
documentId
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote
footnote See bug 1891478
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote
footnote See bug 1891478
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support
documentLifecycle
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
frameType
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
parentDocumentId
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 106 (Release date: 2022-09-27)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 106 (Release date: 2022-10-03)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 92 (Release date: 2022-10-19)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 18.4 (Release date: 2025-03-31)
footnote Full support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
See implementation notes.

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.webNavigation API. This documentation is derived from web_navigation.json in the Chromium code.