[support] modalframe api: affecting parent window

[Christopher M. Jones]

... and I found my own answer.

$("selector", top.document).doSomething();

Thanks to everyone who -would- have answered my question.

On 10/22/2010 09:45 AM, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> Hi, all. I'm spinning my wheels a bit on this one. I have a form in a
> modal, using modalframe api (http://drupal.org/project/modalframe). I
> want to use events in the modal to trigger changes in the DOM in the
> parent window, e.g., adding selections from the modal into the dom
> behind it.
>
> I don't want to do this in the onSubmit handler, because the updates
> could take a second or so. So its better that the changes be done
> incrementally.
>
> Thing is, I don't know how to affect the parent from the child. Modal
> frame itself does things like this:
>
> self.$parentWindow = parent.jQuery(parent);
>
> But I'm not sure what to do with that.
>
> What I need to get to is something like
>
> parent.find("select element in parent dom").trigger(...)