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Change main window href from IE search panel, after user has left my main page?

I know how to load a document into the "Search" panel/sidebar in Internet
Explorer. I also know that I can use the "window.ope ner" property, from the
"Search" sidebar document, to change the main window's URL *as long as the
user has not navigated away from my web page* that loaded the document into
the "Search" sidebar.

But I would like to know if there is a way to change the main window's URL
even *after* the user has navigated away from my main web page, which means
that for the "Search" sidebar document, the "window.ope ner" property is now
invalid. Otherwise, the links in the "Search" sidebar won't be very useful,
now that the user has left my main web page (but the "Search" Sidebar still
shows my "Search" sidebar document).

Thanks.

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Jul 23 '05 #1
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Ivo
"Robert Oschler" wrote
I know how to load a document into the "Search" panel/sidebar in Internet
Explorer. I also know that I can use the "window.ope ner" property, from the "Search" sidebar document, to change the main window's URL *as long as the
user has not navigated away from my web page* that loaded the document into the "Search" sidebar.


You do not need window.opener. You do not even need Javascript. Just specify
target="_main" in the Search pane's document's links...
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Ivo
Jul 23 '05 #2

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