How to get the references of all already opened child windows

Question

I want to get the references of all already opened child windows. is there any way? I am not using child = window.open(....) just using window.open(....) and opening multiple child windows.

Answer 1

If you don't want to change your current code, you can simply override window.open() function:

var openedWindows = []; window._open = window.open; // saving original function window.open = function(url,name,params){     openedWindows.push(window._open(url,name,params));     // you can store names also... } 

Run this code before calling window.open(). All the references to the opened windows will be stored in openedWindows array. You can access them anywhere you want

Answer 2

I don't believe you can, unless you know the windows' names, which I'm guessing you don't. (If you know their names, you can use window.open("", "name") to get a reference to them.)

The better option is, of course, to remember the reference returned from window.open in the first place — but you know that. :-)