Refresh parent window from modal child window

Hello all,

The title says it all. The modal child window doesn't recognize the parent as its parent. I've tried various ways to pass in a handle to the parent window using dialogArguments but have been unsuccessful. Any ideas?

Keep in mind I know how to refresh a parent window from a normal child window (window.opener.location.reload()). Doing it from a MODAL child window is a different problem.

Little Neddy Knickers

You can pass the arguments to the modal window as follows

window.showModalDialog('test.htm',window);

if you need to access this in the child window then you can declare a variable

var xWin=window.dialogArguments;

basically your normal javascript parent will be the variable xWin.

You can use
xWin.location.replace(xWin.location);

to refresh the parent window.
but remember to close the child window before doing that. If you use modeless dialog,
the child window will automaticlly be closed.

Hope this helps.