Parent window focus problem - iPhone

[premchandj]

Hi All,

I am having a peculiar problem with a website i am developing. The problem *only* happens on the iPhone(safari).


My setup is as follows.


1) I have a CLIENT page - shows an initial page, and has a login button.


2) User clicks on the LOGIN button, and is shown a LOGIN popup/new-window (this is created by posting a form using jquery 'submit' function with target='_blank')
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CLIENT.html

var formData = '<form style="display: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-width: 0; overflow: hidden;" id="MyFormId" action="https://MYSERVER.COM/v2/widgets" method="POST" target="_blank"><input type="hidden" name="action" value="connect"/><input type="hidden" name="referringURL" value="http://MYCLIENT.com/ClientPage.html"/><input type="hidden" name="cartOwnerId" value="A2R6QUFKT17A1O"/></form>';
 
 
jQuery("#"+this.getLocation()).append(formData);
 
 
jQuery("#"+formIdName).submit(); 

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3) User enters credentials on LOGIN window, and submits. A call is made to the SERVER to authenticate. On SUCCESSFUL authentication, we want to
* CLOSE the LOGIN window
* REDIRECT Client page to new URL


4) Everything works as planned, EXCEPT that the Client window (that created the LOGIN popup/new window), does not return to full-screen (after the LOGIN window closed).


If i try to put a window.opener.focus() in the LOGIN page javascript, i get focus on the CLIENT page, but the LOGIN page does not close(even if i put window.close before the window.opener.focus())
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LOGIN html

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
      ...
      ...
 
        window.close();
 
        window.opener.focus()
    });

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Is there any tips on how i can close the LOGIN window, and redirect the client page to a new URL, and make the Client window full screen?


Any tips would be appreciated.


Thanks

[acoder]

How about closing the child window (login) from the parent (client)? Keep a reference to the opened window, then use it to close the window:

var loginWin = window.open(...);
...
// call in a function called from child?
loginWin.close();