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Jul 18.2003

I have a parent that opens a child, after the user closes the child window how can I change the parent window ?

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@pyroJul 18.2003 — Using something like this:

window.opener.location.href = "somepage.htm";
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@MadCommandoJul 18.2003 — I think you could have in the child's html in the body tag

<body onUnload="changeparent()">

and in the script

function changeparent()

{

parent.document.location="http://www.thesite.com/page.html"

}



I think it should work, but I'm not quite sure.
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@pyroJul 18.2003 — No, that won't work, but what I posted above will...
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