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

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
September 3, 2025
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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?

Correct answer rob day

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

Correct answer

Community Expert

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

m1b

Community Expert

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

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

dubloveAuthor

Legend

That should be it. Thank you both very much.

m1b

Community Expert

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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