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How can I change the content of the opener window when a link in the child window is clicked on?

Dec 4th, 2002 19:10
Ryan Buterbaugh, Rey Nuņez, Ulrich Hendersen,

this code should do the trick (very simple, im sure you could have 
thought of it)
window.opener.location.href = "http://www.your.url.com/";
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This is one other way to do it. In the document that calls to open the 
child window, add:
self.name = "mainWindowName";
For example, always open the popup window thru a function like this:
function openPop(url,popWinName,features){
window.open(url,popWinName,features);
self.name = "main";
}
What this essentially does is assign the name "main" to the current 
window (the window that opened the popup). Then in the links in your 
child window, add target = "main".
This is more reliable than using window.opener, as the window.opener 
object has known bugs in IE.