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Control parent window’s location from a popup

Published: October 12, 2010

Step 1:  In your parent window document add a function

function changeURL(url)
{
    if( url == ""){
        url = document.location.href;
    }
    document.location.href = url;
}

 

Step 2: In popup document call this function to change URL of parent window

opener.document.changeURL('http://www.google.com/');

 If you only want to refresh parent’s window, use the following statement.

opener.document.location.reload();

 

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