Refresh parent window when the pop-up window is closed

Question

Is there any way I can refresh the parent window when a popup window is closed without adding any javascript code to the popup window?

I have a page parent.php on which users can click "open popup" to open a popup window. This popup window shows some flash content and its not possible for me to add something like

window.onunload = function(){ 
  window.opener.location.reload(); 
}; 

to the popup window page markup.

Is there any other method to achieve this? Thanks

Answer 1

To make this work in all major browsers, you need to handle the unload event handler in the pop-up and do the reloading in the main window. In the main window, add

function popUpClosed() {
    window.location.reload();
}

In the pop-up:

window.onunload = function() {
    if (window.opener && !window.opener.closed) {
        window.opener.popUpClosed();
    }
};

So the answer to your question is generally no, if you need your code to work in all browsers, in particular IE.