parent.onload function within child window?

jacktripper · Jun 8, 2005

Is there a way to tell when a parent page has been loaded? Such as a parent.onload command?

I know this is a common problem, but I'm having a dilly of a time finding a usable solution.

Details:
I have an HTML form which passed data to a PHP page, and an onClick command to open a pop-up advertisement. The PHP page actually generates a PDF document (taking a while) and therefore doesn't have a <BODY> tag where I can use an onload() function to close the child window. Somehow the child has to be able to tell when that PDF document is finished loading in the parent window, and then close itself (the child).

Any ideas?

jemminger · Jun 8, 2005

IE only, you can check parent.document.readyState

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/readystate_1.asp?frame=true

cross-browser you could just have the parent set some property onload, like
<body onload="window.loaded = true;">

then from the child you can check for that property

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