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About the term "top-level-browsing-context"

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#2,322 opened on Feb 5, 2017

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Description

In the spec:

A browsing context that is not a nested browsing context has no parent browsing context, and is the top-level browsing context of all the browsing contexts for which it is an ancestor browsing context.

I think I can't understand what it means very well,could you give some little example?Thanks a lot.

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Provide a simple example to illustrate the concept of 'top level browsing context' as defined in the HTML spec.
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