How to get parent window url from iframe?

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I know this is a security issue. But is there an HTML5 way. The reason I saw that the code below opens a window with the parents url on twitter

<iframe src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html" style="border: 0; width:130px; height:20px;"></iframe>

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user2736812 Mar 20 '14 at 3:54

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Give this javascript go

 var referrer = document.referrer; console.log(referrer);

Hope this works for your purpose. Read more about document.referer here if you want to know more:

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Pete Mar 20 '14 at 4:02

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Saithithair · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-20T03:59:56+0000

Try this inside an iframe. It will alert the URL of the location of the parent window.

 alert(document.referrer);