Returning focus to the parent window from child window

Question

I have two pages called as "Form_1.html" and "Form_2.html".

• "Form_1.html" is the parent window from which i am opening "Form_2.html" using window.open() method.

• Now what i want is that when i write window.close() in the child window("Form_2.html") i want the focus to return back to "Form_1.html" and the parent window should get refreshed.

• I want it in javascript only because i cannot use jquery(because it is not allowed).

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

You can use this :

function RefreshParent() {
        if (window.opener != null && !window.opener.closed) {
            window.opener.location.reload();
        }
    }
    window.onbeforeunload = RefreshParent;

You can find a demo here : http://aspsnippets.com/demos/542/