Access elements of parent window from iframe

Question

I have a page we can call parent.php. In this page I have an iframe with a submit form and outside of that I have a div with the id "target". Is it possible to submit the form in the iframe and when success refresh the target div. Say load a new page into it or something?

Edit: The target div is in the parent page, so my question is basically if you can make for an example a jQuery call outside the iframe to the parent. And how that would look?

Edit 2: So this is how my jquery code looks like now. It is in the of the iframe page. the div #target is in the parent.php

$(;"form[name=my_form]").submit(function(e){       e.preventDefault;   window.parent.document.getElementById('#target');   $("#target").load("mypage.php", function() {   $('form[name=my_form]').submit();   });   }) 

I don't know if the script is active cause the form submits successfully but nothing happens to target.

Edit 3:

Now I'm trying to call the parent page from a link within the iframe. And no success there either:

<a href="javascript:window.parent.getElementById('#target').load('mypage.php');">Link</a> 

Answer 1

I think the problem may be that you are not finding your element because of the "#" in your call to get it:

window.parent.document.getElementById('#target');  

You only need the # if you are using jquery. Here it should be:

window.parent.document.getElementById('target');