P.innerHTML = 'I was added by the child directly. (You don't have to use a scoping function as I did above, but it's useful to keep your globals contained.) 'Got callback from child window at ' + new Date() tItem('reload', 'true') location.reload() localStorage.removeItem('reload') // localStorage.clear() // or clear it, instead. If changed, the associated document navigates to the new page. HTML5 provides localStorage: / set reload to true and then reload the page /. A stringifier that returns a string containing the entire URL. automatically become a property of `window`ĭocument.getElementById('display').innerHTML = A static DOMStringList containing, in reverse order, the origins of all ancestor browsing contexts of the document associated with the given Location object. and *not* inside another function, that will

ps: If a hash already exist in the URL, you may want to directly change it via location.hash instead of. The hash will remain there, and the page gets reloaded. We can also use () method to reload or refresh the current page. just declare a function in a script block + 'mypara' location.reload() First add the hash, then reload the page. I'm going to create explicitly, but if you By default, the reload() method reloads the page from the cache, but you can force it to reload the page from the server by setting the forceGet parameter to. here because I prefer to export any globals Make the callback function available on our Var btnOpen = document.getElementById('btnOpen') The full code for this is quoted below.īut that example didn't do exactly what you said, so I've done this one as well, which has the child refreshing the parent page via ().Īrticle, aside, figure, footer, header, hgroup, Here's a live example demonstrating the child calling back to a function on the parent, and also manipulating the parent directly. I have additional javascript calls after this call. Provided you don't run afoul of the Same Origin Policy, the popup window can call scripts and manipulate properties on the parent window object just like code in the parent can. (false) in a javascript method to update the page. Window.opener in the popup will refer to the window object of the opening window, so of course you should be able to call (). If you dont need/want any animated reload actions, simply use two different events - first to move the current page/scroll location to the top window.scrollTo (0,0) and then reload the page, either from the cache () or from the server if youve updated any of the needed data (true).

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