Question

I have a simple page (index.html) with a div:

I am populating that div with some easy jquery commands:

$("#email").html("[e-mail]");

Is there a way to populate a similar div on a popup? I like to use popups for debugging reasons, but I don’t want to reload the popup each time the main page refreshes.

In other words, can jquery search for an element on a different window?

It’s a long shot, but I thought I’d ask.

Answer 1

So, you want to launch a separate browser, loading a separate webpage, to display more information. ???

DO NOT DO THAT !!

It’s slow, and most users find it rather annoying. So annoying, that nearly everyone of them will be using some form of popup blocker, which you are now expecting them to disable, just to see some content on your page. Most will find this extremely annoying.

Since you are already using jQuery, why not just use jQuery UI’s Dialog plugin. This turns a hidden DIV on you page into a popup. It’s looks better than an old-fashioned popup, runs faster, and since it’s part of your same page, solve the problem you are asking about..

UPDATE: Sorry about the rant — I didn’t see the comment about using this for debugging purposes — but really, using a popup for debugging is a even worse idea, even if you are the only one being annoyed. (have you considered alert() )