Check the parent windows state from child.

mannerfanner

In order to reload the opener window from a child window I want to
check the parent windows state. The following code works fine in IE
and Mozilla:

if(top.opener && !top.opener.clo sed)
{
top.opener.loca tion.reload();
}

BUT ... The state check works because IE recognises top.opener.clos ed
and Mozilla recognises top.opener. BUT IE does not recognise
top.opener and Mozilla does not recognise top.opener.clos ed.

I have seen this solution used on several sites. It can't be good
practise to fudge two statements together in one statement to make
them work for two different browsers.

Does anyone know of single method for checking window state which
works in IE and Mozilla?

Jul 23 '05 #1

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Homer J. Simpson

Have u tried to check "parent.documen t.readyState" ?

This should work both with ie and ns (in fact with all recent browsers)

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In order to reload the opener window from a child window I want to
check the parent windows state. The following code works fine in IE
and Mozilla:

if(top.opener && !top.opener.clo sed)
{
top.opener.loca tion.reload();
}

BUT ... The state check works because IE recognises top.opener.clos ed
and Mozilla recognises top.opener. BUT IE does not recognise
top.opener and Mozilla does not recognise top.opener.clos ed.

I have seen this solution used on several sites. It can't be good
practise to fudge two statements together in one statement to make
them work for two different browsers.

Does anyone know of single method for checking window state which
works in IE and Mozilla?

Jul 23 '05 #2

RobB

mannerfanner wrote:

In order to reload the opener window from a child window I want to
check the parent windows state. The following code works fine in IE
and Mozilla:

if(top.opener && !top.opener.clo sed)
{
top.opener.loca tion.reload();
}

BUT ... The state check works because IE recognises top.opener.clos ed
and Mozilla recognises top.opener. BUT IE does not recognise
top.opener and Mozilla does not recognise top.opener.clos ed.
How could IE 'recognize' top.opener.clos ed, but not top.opener? The
first is merely a property reference of the second's object.

What makes you say 'Mozilla does not recognise top.opener.clos ed'?
I have seen this solution used on several sites. It can't be good
practise to fudge two statements together in one statement to make
them work for two different browsers.

Does anyone know of single method for checking window state which
works in IE and Mozilla?

No fudge at all. By 'state' you presumably meant closed or not; all
window objects expose a .closed property (Boolean) indicating whether
the window has been closed, necessary as these objects persist even
after the window is off the desktop. Attempting to script a closed
window will throw an exception so, always check. Those aren't two
different approaches to checking 'state', they're a typical
illustration of evaluating object/property references one step at a
time to insure you never get beyond *one* undefined identifier.

if (top.opener ----> does 'opener' reference a window object?
&& !top.opener.clo sed) ----> OK, is it closed, or can I fiddle with it?

Compound Boolean expressions like this 'short-circuit' if any of the
evaluations, moving from left to right, have a result that makes the
overall outcome a forgone conclusion. For a compound &&,this means if
any operand evaluates to false (no point in continuing), and for || if
any operand is true (the entire expression is). You can use this
behavior to 'step gingerly out on a limb', so to speak, without hurting
yourself.

If I understood you correctly.

http://www.webreference.com/js/column6/object.html

Jul 23 '05 #3

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