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The children read-only property of the NotRestoredReasons interface returns an array of NotRestoredReasons objects, one for each child <iframe> embedded in the current document, which may contain reasons why the top-level frame was blocked relating to the child frames.
Each object has the same structure as the parent object — this way, any number of levels of embedded <iframe>s can be represented inside the object recursively.
An array of NotRestoredReasons objects.
If the frame has no children, the array will be empty; if the document is in a cross-origin <iframe>, children will return null.
See Monitoring bfcache blocking reasons for examples.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-not-restored-reasons-children> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
children |
125 | 125 | No | 111 | No | 125 | No | 83 | No | 27.0 | 125 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NotRestoredReasons/children