send data from jquery dialog to parent page

Question

I have used jquery ui dialog using IFrame and passed URL to that IFrame. So new page opened in dialog box in Iframe.

After some processing in that dialog box page. I want to pass some data from that dialog box to my page on close event.

Please help.

Answer 1

To access the parent page on an iframe you can use window.parent

Answer 2

Don't know if it is the only solution, but you can write the data you want to pass to some invisible element in the close event of the dialog.

Example:

$("..").dialog({...}).bind('dialogclose',function(){
          $("#someInvisibleElement").val(data);
});