asked on 7/23/2008

JQuery Reference Function on Another Page

Using JQuery, I have a main page (main.html) that includes a second page (test.html) with this in the header:

$("#testdiv").load("test.html");

Which works fine. But there is a link in test.html, that when run, I want it to run a function located on main.html to update some content there.

Can I do this?

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MDauphinais1

8/24/2008

b0lsc0tt

7/23/2008

You could try having it use top.functionName() or parent.functionName() but most likely that won't work. The only reason I can't be sure is there may be some exception because of jQuery. If testdiv were a frame or iframe then things would be different but it seems that jQuery is running the test.html page before it puts the result in the element testdiv. Because of that the script in testdiv doesn't access main.htm and vice a versa.
Let me know if you have a question about this.
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