Focus on Parent Frame from within iFrame

[brinegart]

I want to focus back on the main page from an iFrame that is loaded as an element on the page. I am trying to make a toggle focus using CTRL to go between the two. I am using javascript to navigate the iFrame to different pages.

Once the iFrame has focus, I can't get it to focus on the parent document. Any ideas?

[Lusiphur]

Per the discussion in this site you might be able to achieve what you're looking for with one of the following:

top.focus()
parent.focus()

Apparently, however, this will not work in Internet Explorer.

It appears that there are a number of items within the iframe framework that do not work properly with IE however. Unless your target audience is guaranteed not to be using IE for their browsing I would possibly look into alternatives to the iframe construct.