Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have two windows open, and window B just did some processing to get some results. I wish to use these results as the input for another set of processing.
However, I wish to close the second window and start the processing on the first window. I can use javascript to accomplish this, but I don’t know how to send the information from the second window onto the first one.
postMessage is what you’re looking for. It is supported by these browsers: FF3+, IE8+, Chrome, Safari(5?), Opera10+.