How to reload parent window from a iframe

Sunday, September 7, 2008

How to reload parent window from a iframe

Lets see how we can reload or refresh parent page from a iframe. This is pretty simple with small piece of JavaScript - top.location.href
Look at the following code it has two pages.

frame.htm - parent


<HTML>
<HEAD>
 <TITLE>Parent window</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>This is main</td>
<td><iframe src ="frame2.htm" width="100%">
</iframe></td>
</tr>
</table>

</BODY>
</HTML>

frame2.htm


<HTML>
<HEAD>
 <TITLE>New Document</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<div onClick="top.location.href='frame.php'">
Click here to reload parent page</div>

</BODY>
</HTML>

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