I've seen .parentFrame before, but the name seems off?

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Regardless of the level, one can directly access the text box layer.
There's no need for multiple levels of navigation like .parent.parent.parent.
For example, cell.parentFrame or contents.parentFrame?

rob dayCorrect answer

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Do you mean parentTextFrames, which is a property (array) of text objects--text, character, insertionPoint, etc?

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/index.html#Text.html

rob day

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Do you mean parentTextFrames, which is a property (array) of text objects--text, character, insertionPoint, etc?

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/index.html#Text.html

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m1b

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By the way, sometimes you need to ask for the text of something, for example:

var myCellsFrame = myCell.texts[0].parentTextFrames[0];

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dubloveAuthor

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That should be it. Thank you both very much.

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m1b

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Hi @dublove any Text object has a parentTextFrames property which returns an array of the text frames that contain the text.

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