I'm working on a site that has three frames. A top frame, main frame and a bottom frame named topFrame, mainFrame, bottomFrame in the frameset. Nothing unusual.
Working in the mainFrame, I have a page called view.html that contains a function called refresh_status().
It looks like this:
function refresh_status() {
alert ("inside of refresh status function");
// do stuff
}
Also, from this page (view.html), I simply pop open (from a link) a new child window like this:
Link looks like this....
<a href="javascript:popUpstatus('status.html')">Update</a>
Function that pops open new window....
function popUpstatus(URL) {
status = window.open(URL, 'status','toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,width=670,height=600');
}
The status.html file pops open normally in a new child window. In the child window, I have a link from which I'm trying to fire the refresh_status() function in the parent window (view.html).
In the child pop up (status.html), this is the link....
<a name="select_anchor" href="#">Refresh</a>
The javascript in status.html looks like this....
<script type="text/javascript">
function new_status() {
window.opener.refresh_status();
}
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a[name='select_anchor']").click(new_status());
});
</script>
IE8 will fire the refresh_status() function in the parent window and triggers the alert as expected, however Firefox complains and says that window.opener.refresh_status() is not a function. Any ideas?
If you want call new_status at click on link event you just need to remove braces
because when you are write this
you are set result of function as event handler