... 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(...)