[thelist] Sending data back to a parent window

R.Livsey R.Livsey at cache-22.co.uk
Tue Sep 4 10:19:00 CDT 2001


Perfect, thanks.

In a nutshell, what I wanted to do is solved with:

window.opener.location='edit.php'

Cheers.

R.Livsey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org 
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Michael Pemberton
> Sent: 04 September 2001 16:09
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Sending data back to a parent window
> 
> 
> Here's that the Netscape JS Reference says:
> 
> Opener
> ------
> Specifies the window of the calling document when a window is 
> opened using the open method.
> 
> Description:
> When a source document opens a destination window by calling 
> the open method, the opener property specifies the window of 
> the source document. Evaluate the opener property from the 
> destination window.
> 
> This property persists across document unload in the opened window.
> 
> You can change the opener property at any time.
> 
> You may use window.open to open a new window and then use 
> window.open on that window to open another window, and so on. 
> In this way, you can end up with a chain of opened windows, 
> each of which has an opener property pointing to the window 
> that opened it.
> 
> Property of: window
> 
> Implemented in JavaScript 1.1
> 
> I hope this makes sense.
> 





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