close colorbox and redirect parent window to a specific url

Question

I am trying to get colorbox (iframe) to close and for it to redirect the parent window to a specific page that is dynamically depending on the image that is being displayed in the colorbox. So basically each image with have a link next to so the user can click to go to the owner of the image profile.

I have got it so it closes the colorbox but not redirecting the parent window.

<a href='#' onclick='parent.$.colorbox.close(); window.parent.location.href=linkurl;'> owner profile</a>

Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Try this:

<a href="#" id="myLink">click</a>

jQuery('#myLink').click(function(){
  jQuery.colorbox.close();
  window.location.href = 'http://yourlink.com';
});

You could probably remove the window.location and just give youre a tag a link.

Answer 2

Try to replace window.parent.location.href=linkurl; with opener.location.href=linkurl;