Close child window, redirect parent window

Question

I've got a page which opens a child window, from a parent.

After the user has done something in the child window, I need the child window to close, and its parent window to be redirected to a page, on the click of a button in the child window.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

from child:

opener.location.href = '/redirect';
close();

Answer 2

The key is to use window.opener to access the parent window:

<script>
    window.opener.location = '/redirect.html';
    window.close();
</script>

Answer 3

try this:

var parent = window.opener;

parent.location ='some url';

window.close();

here is an example in a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/jGbZq/

Answer 4

Please try below :

window.opener.location.reload();
close();

1. window.opener.location.reload(); will reload the parent window.
2. close() will close the child window

It works fine for me.