Fancy Box - how to refresh parent page when close iframe popup?

Question

I want my parent page to refresh when I close a Fancy Box popup frame. I have a login page inside the popup, so I need the parent page to refresh to show the new login state

Answer 1

Besides the obvious missing , which you say you have fixed IMO this is not a fancybox issue but rather a parent refresh issue.

I have found it to be a challenge to get a parent of a frame to reload as there are multiple ways to "theoretically" achieve this but "most" simply do NOT work in practice and worse yet there really doesn't appear to be any error raised by the web browsers I tested with.

Here is code that works well for me on Chrome, FF, IE:

afterClose: function(){
    parent.location.href = parent.location.href;
},

This basically says set the parent href to whatever it is currently which in effect results in a page refresh. Try it out and it should work well.

In fact the line:

parent.location.href = parent.location.href;

can be used with frames (from the parent of course) or without frames to simply refresh a web page. HTH.