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Refreshing the Parent Mark 03-31-2006
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Posted by Mark on March 31, 2006, 2:37 pm
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I have a link on Parent.html which brings up Child.html in a separate
browser window. Child.html has a button with Javascript to close
itself. Is there a way I can cause Parent.html to be refreshed/reloaded
after Child.html is closed?

I don't care if it can be done in HTML, Javascript or PHP, just so it
can be done. Is there a way to do this?

Mark

Posted by Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on March 31, 2006, 2:53 pm
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Mark wrote:

> I have a link on Parent.html which brings up Child.html in a separate
> browser window. Child.html has a button with Javascript to close
> itself. Is there a way I can cause Parent.html to be refreshed/reloaded
> after Child.html is closed?

No. But you can refresh/reload it before or when the window displaying
Child.html is closed.

if (window.opener && !window.opener.closed)
{
// or whatever you call refresh/reload
window.opener.location.reload();
}

window.close();

> I don't care if it can be done in HTML, Javascript or PHP, just so it
> can be done. [...]

You are mixing up things. HTML is a markup language, J(ava)Script and PHP
are programming languages. You need a programming language to do this.

BTW, PHP is on topic in comp.lang.php, not in ciwa._html_. The appropriate
newsgroup for this unspecified a question would have been only
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc.


F'up2 cljs

PointedEars

Posted by Stan Brown on March 31, 2006, 8:33 pm
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> I have a link on Parent.html which brings up Child.html in a separate
> browser window. Child.html has a button with Javascript to close
> itself. Is there a way I can cause Parent.html to be refreshed/reloaded
> after Child.html is closed?

There are just so many things wrong with that, on so many levels.
Just the first three that I thought of:

(1) Don't open or close windows on my desktop, please. I know how to
operate my own browser, thank you very much.

(2) Especially don't do things that depend on Javascript, since they
will fail for a significant minority of visitors.

(3) Don't reinvent the wheel. I already know how to close a window.
"Close" buttons are amateurish, even apart from the fact that they
don't work.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Why We Won't Help You:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you

Posted by pegasusflightresources@gmail.c on March 31, 2006, 11:57 pm
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This may be minutely possible as long as the parent.html and child.html
pages are opened in a frameset. In that case, then you can refresh the
web page to load Parent.html again while removing the frame for
Child.html. An example of this would be:
<html>
...
<frameset cols="50%,50%">
<frame src="Parent.html">
<frame src="Child.html">
</frameset>
</html>

For Child.html you would have to add in a script running a function
using the onClick attribute of buttons. The script might look like
this:
<script language="JavaScript">
function close_child()
{
location.href = "Parent.html";
}
</script>

You would have previously inserted a button looking like this in code:
<input type=button name="close" value="close this window"
onClick="close_child();">

You may want to vary the width of the frames and any other simple
features to fit your pages properly.


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