Troy Swanson
Troy Swanson

Reputation: 13

Trigger event on a page when a popup window is closed

Page x creates a pop-up window (page y). When page y is closed, I need an event to trigger on page x.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1846

Answers (1)

Gormit
Gormit

Reputation: 101

You could use the top.opener.document to access the page x from page y:

on page x:

function onTrigger()...
...
window.open(page_y,...)

on page y:

top.opener.document.onTrigger();

or

window.opener.document.onTrigger();

or even do:

top.opener.document.form1.input1.val="xxx"; 

Upvotes: 1

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