window.opener alternatives

Question

I am opening a modal popup window. Then I access a parent window textbox and other attributes using window.opener. It is working fine in firefox but not in IE8.

Answer 1

Disable Internet Explorer's "Protected Mode", which prevents access to this object.

The steps for this are:

1. Press Alt+T to show the Tools menu
2. Click "Internet options"
3. Select the "Security" tab
4. Make sure zone selected contains your site. For an intranet site it would typically be "Local intranet" zone.
5. Untick "Enable Protected Mode"
6. Close all IE tabs and windows and re-open.

Now you should be able to access the window.opener object.