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Passing a reference to the calling window using window.open

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Jul 13.2004

Hello,
I need to show an ASP.NET page as a dialog using JavaScript, but the problem is that I can not use showModalDialog ‘cos ASP.NET postbacks can’t be processed within it and will have to open another window. So I wanna simulate the Dialog’s behavior using window.open. The thing is I need to pass a reference to the window that caused this dialog window to open so that the dialog would change the value of a hidden field value in the calling page. How can this be done?

Thanks in advance
Zee_AlieN

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@KorJul 13.2004 — The references are

To manipulate an object or to call a method/function

1. from opener to popup

- set a variable as the new object(window)

var newpage=window.open('newpage.html','name_or_target','other_attributes');

  • - now the references are


    • newpage.document.[i]object[/i]

    newpage.[i]a_function()[/i]

  • 2. from popup to opener

    window.opener.document.[i]object[/i]

    window.opener.[i]a_function()[/i]
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