need to refresh web page after clicking close on pop-up window

Question

I have a pop-up window a user logs into, once they are logged in successful, I have a message that has a link to close the window. But I want it to not only close that pop up window, but I want it to refresh the webpage the pop-up window was clicked on.

So the page can refresh to see that there is a valid login session for that user.

Is this possible w/ jQuery?

Answer 1

In your popup window:

$('#closeButton').click(function(e) {
    window.opener.location.reload(true);
    window.close();
    e.preventDefault();
});

Reloads the parent page and closes the popup.

Answer 2

You can do this:

window.location.reload()

It just tells javascript to reload the page, this is not dependent on jQuery.

Answer 3

onclick="javascript:window.opener.location.reload(true);self.close();"