Refresh Another Window

[Candrias77]

I have a link on my site that opens a new window. When a use is finished with the new window, I would like it to close and refresh the page that opened it. I think that I could use something like:

window.windowname.reload();
window.close();

but how would I set the 'windowname' the original page?

Any other thoughts on how this could be better are also appreciated, I am not all that hot on javascript.

Thanks.

[Mr J]

Is the close button in the parent or the new window?

[SlavaTT]

Hi,

in IE - window.opener.location.reload(true)
or window.opener.open('your url',_self,'size and other options (optional)')

Slava

[Candrias77]

Mr J, the close button is in the new window.

[Mr J]

In the popup you could go

<script>
<!--
function close_me(){
opener.location="page.htm"
self.close()
}
//->
</script>

where page.htm is the name of the opener page

[glenngv]

Should be:

function close_me(){
  if (opener && !opener.closed){ //make sure the opener window is still open
     opener.location.reload();
  }
  window.close(); //close popup
}
...
<input type="button" value="Close" onclick="close_me()" />