accessing parent window from modal dialog ....

[dmjpro]

i have a pge .... and i opening a modal dialog box from the page ..

now my problem is .......

i want to acces the parent window of the modal dialog box ...
how can i do it ......

plz helppppppp me out ....

lot of thanx in advance ..............

[acoder]

Use

var parent = window.dialogArguments;

[dmjpro]

thanx for ur reply ..........

but this is not my answer what i want .....

already the code for showModalDialog are written ....

if i follow ur code then i have to change in lot of places ....

can't i access using window.opener ......

again lot of thanx ... in advance

[acoder]

No, unfortunately, you can't. You can't use window.opener, so you will just have to replace that with window.dialogAr guments.

If you want something more cross-browser, try this.

[dmjpro]

many many thanx for ur reply ........

can u explain why this happens ....

thanx in advance

[acoder]

I don't know about why this happens. Ask Microsoft why they implemented modal dialogs like that!

I would just add that do you really need modal dialogs? In most circumstances, there's no need for them.

[dmjpro]

thanx acoder for reply .....

actually i just asked .... is there any logic behind it ....

i told u before the code already written ..... and the system is ongoing ....

any possible solution is very much expected

[balajibirlasoft]

Try this.. while opening the modaldialogue send the window as the parameter

showModalDialog ue(url,window,p arams);
and in the modal window

var parWin = window.dialogue Arguments;

now parWin contains your parent window object

[acoder]

Welcome to TSDN!

I think you'll find that you should be using American English spellings rather than British English, i.e. dialog instead of dialogue (though I prefer the latter, being from the UK myself).