How to get the window.opener object into a model window

Question

Hi,
I m opening a new popup window with the help of window.showModalDialog(url,self,''). Now i want to access the opner window inside this popup window. Since this showModalDialog does not support window.opener so i passed 'self' as parameter and if i want to access the parent window i can access it with the help of window.dialogArguments . But the problem is window.dialogArguments is not an object .
for e.g.
var caller = window.opener
then caller can be used as object but if i do like this
var caller = window.dialogArguments
then i can't use caller as an object.
Can anybody tell me the correct way.
manish

Answer 1

Hi Manish,
I'm trying to use as well showModalDialog in IE and in the same time have a similar experience in other browsers (like Firefox) - similar to the Hotmail Empty Junk mail button, so here is a piece of code you might be interested in:
  Caller page
  // showModalDialog for Non-IE browsers
  if (!window.showModalDialog) {
    window.showModalDialog = function(sUrl, vArguments, sFeatures) {
      var wFeatures   = sFeatures.replace(/dialog/gi,"").replace(/:/gi,"=").replace(/;/gi,",");  // plus a little more replacement
      var modalWindow = window.open (sUrl, "_blank", wFeatures);
      modalWindow.setFocusToWindow = function () {
        modalWindow.focus();
      modalWindow.setInterval ("setFocusToWindow()", 100);
  // Show modal dialog...
  window.showModalDialog ("modal_dialog.html", self, "dialogHeight: 300px; dialogWidth: 400px; center: yes; help: no; status: no")
  modal_dialog.html
  // IE only - other browsers will be fine
  if (window.dialogArguments) {
    window.opener = window.dialogArguments;
  // Write something back in the opener window
  window.opener.document.write ("here you go...");