Access a window by window name

Question

If I open a window using

window.open(\'myurl.html\', \'windowname\', \'width=100,height=100\');

How do I refer to the new window (from the

Answer 1

Petr is correct:

var w = window.open("", "nameofwindow");

works in all browsers, I am using it to retrieve the reference to the window object previously opened by a different page. The only problem is the initial opening of the page, if the popup does not exist, you will get a new window with a blank page.

I tried invoking a Javascript function inside the context of the other document in order to check whether I opened a new window or retrieved the already active page. If the check fails, I just invoke window.open again to actually load my popup content:

var w = window.open("http://mydomain.com/myPopup", "nameofwindow");

Hope that helps.