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Javascript/DOM: Popups accessing spawning/parent windows

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  • 30-06-2005 7:25pm
    #1
    PhantomBeaker
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭


    Hey,

    I'm trying to write a popup window that can have effect on the parent window. Namely I want to be able to read what URL the parent window is looking at. At the moment I have two files

    popup2.html and popup2_popped.html

    popup2.html opens popup2_popped.html and what I want is to have a document.write statement that reads the URL from the browser that was looking at popup2.html - or reference the parent window in general.

    I know that this must be possible because I've seen some pages provide controls in a popup window that then effected the parent window, although I have no idea how to manage this.

    Can anyone help? I've tried google, but it's not my friend right now.

    Take care,
    Phantom Beaker


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    #2
    optiplexgx270
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭optiplexgx270


    window.alert(opener.window.location);

    if you want to change the parent you go

    opener.window.location = 'page.html';


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