Need help with refreshing open window in new tab

Question

Hello all,
First, all my other problems I've solved.  One last thing, being a newbie and trying things I've found on the net and them
not working, I can use your help one last time.  My code has a Home page that peforms a Search (most of you have
I am sure done this), and from that search submit a window opens in a new tab (browser tab) and has the results on
it.
That works fine.  What I'm having trouble with is being able to perform a new search and refreshing that open window
with the new data.  Right now I am closing that window by clicking on the tab and then performing the search.
While it works, it's not user friendly.
So, I've tried the usual  mywindow=window.open("url.cfm"); and then trying to grab that handle to refresh, but to
no avail.  Has anyone done this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Here's an example of how you could do it.
<script>
function submitAndFocusTarget(form) {
  var win = window.open("", form.target);
  form.submit();
  win.focus();
</script>
<form action="index.cfm" target="mysearchwin" method="get" onsubmit="submitAndFocusTarget(this); return false;">
  <input type="text" name="search" value="" />
  <input type="submit" value="search" />
</form>