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Refresh parent window from child window while retaining focus on child window

The issue I'm facing is as follows:
1. I have a browser window - say Window A - open.
2. On clicking a link this window opens a popup window.
3. After opening the popup I need to refresh the parent page (which has a pointer to the child popup window).
4. After refreshing the parent page I want to give the focus back to the child page. But since I refreshed the parent page, I no longer have a pointer to the child window.

Is there any way I can get around this problem.

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ckontz

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This sounds good, but there is a twist to the story :) I can't change code on the child popup I am calling. Its sort of in a different module so to speak, and is called by other pages which dont require the behavior that my parent page requires - i.e. to refresh itself.

So the only option for me is to launch the child, refresh myself, and then somehow set the focus to the child window. I'm not quite familiar with javascript, so not sure how possible this is.

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More specifically if I retain the name of the child window, is there a way when the page refreshes itself to find all child windows with a particular name? Something along these lines.

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