Cross-document messaging
Cross-document messaging
Method of sending information from a page on one domain to a page on a different one (using postMessage)
| Spec | https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/comms.html#crossDocumentMessages |
|---|---|
| Status | WHATWG Living Standard |
| IE | Edge | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Opera |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 62 | ||||
| 56 | 61 | TP | 48 | ||
| 16 | 55 | 60 | 11 | 47 | |
| 11 (2) | 15 | 54 | 59 | 10.1 | 46 |
| 10 (2) | 14 | 53 | 58 | 10 | 45 |
| 9 (1) | 13 | 52 | 57 | 9.1 | 44 |
| 8 (1) | 12 | 51 | 56 | 9 | 43 |
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| 7 | 50 | 55 | 8 | 42 | |
| 6 | 49 | 54 | 7.1 | 41 | |
| 5.5 | 48 | 53 | 7 | 40 | |
| 47 | 52 | 6.1 | 39 | ||
| 46 | 51 | 6 | 38 | ||
| 45 | 50 | 5.1 | 37 | ||
| 44 | 49 | 5 | 36 | ||
| 43 | 48 | 4 | 35 | ||
| 42 | 47 | 3.2 | 34 | ||
| 41 | 46 | 3.1 | 33 | ||
| 40 | 45 | 32 | |||
| 39 | 44 | 31 | |||
| 38 | 43 | 30 | |||
| 37 | 42 | 29 | |||
| 36 | 41 | 28 | |||
| 35 | 40 | 27 | |||
| 34 | 39 | 26 | |||
| 33 | 38 | 25 | |||
| 32 | 37 | 24 | |||
| 31 | 36 | 23 | |||
| 30 | 35 | 22 | |||
| 29 | 34 | 21 | |||
| 28 | 33 | 20 | |||
| 27 | 32 | 19 | |||
| 26 | 31 | 18 | |||
| 25 | 30 | 17 | |||
| 24 | 29 | 16 | |||
| 23 | 28 | 15 | |||
| 22 | 27 | 12.1 | |||
| 21 | 26 | 12 | |||
| 20 | 25 | 11.6 | |||
| 19 | 24 | 11.5 | |||
| 18 | 23 | 11.1 | |||
| 17 | 22 | 11 | |||
| 16 | 21 | 10.6 | |||
| 15 | 20 | 10.5 | |||
| 14 | 19 | 10.0-10.1 | |||
| 13 | 18 | 9.5-9.6 | |||
| 12 | 17 | 9 | |||
| 11 | 16 | ||||
| 10 | 15 | ||||
| 9 | 14 | ||||
| 8 | 13 | ||||
| 7 | 12 | ||||
| 6 | 11 | ||||
| 5 | 10 | ||||
| 4 | 9 | ||||
| 3.6 | 8 | ||||
| 3.5 | 7 | ||||
| 3 | 6 | ||||
| 2 | 5 | ||||
| 4 | |||||
| iOS Safari | Opera Mini | Android Browser | Blackberry Browser | Opera Mobile | Android Chrome | Android Firefox | IE Mobile | Android UC Browser | Samsung Internet | QQ Browser | Baidu Browser |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | |||||||||||
| 10.3 | all | 56 | 10 | 37 | 59 | 54 | 11 | 11.4 | 5 | 1.2 | 7.12 |
| 10.0-10.2 | 4.4.3-4.4.4 | 7 | 12.1 | 10 | 4 | ||||||
| 9.3 | 4.4 | 12 | |||||||||
| 9.0-9.2 | 4.2-4.3 | 11.5 | |||||||||
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| 8.1-8.4 | 4.1 | 11.1 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | 11 | |||||||||
| 7.0-7.1 | 3 | 10 | |||||||||
| 6.0-6.1 | 2.3 | ||||||||||
| 5.0-5.1 | 2.2 | ||||||||||
| 4.2-4.3 | 2.1 | ||||||||||
| 4.0-4.1 | |||||||||||
| 3.2 | |||||||||||
Notes
Partial support refers to only working in frames/iframes (not other tabs/windows). Also, objects cannot be sent using postMessage.
Partial support refers to limitations in certain conditions.
Bugs
Internet Explorer 8 and 9, and Firefox versions 6.0 and below only support strings as postMessage's message. References: https://dev.opera.com/articles/view/window-postmessage-messagechannel/#crossdoc, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.postMessage
IE8's events are triggered synchronously, which may lead to to unexpected results.
Firefox 41 and below do not support sending File/Blob objects see bug
Resources
- Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) documentation - window.postMessage
- Simple demo
- has.js test
- WebPlatform Docs
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