parent.location.href problem

[IndyFusion]

Okay, I feel like a total idiot now. I am opening a modal dialog window and in the dialog I'm trying to change the location.href of the parent window. When I try parent.location.href = 'blah.htm'; it opens a new window with blah.htm inside. Why is it opening in a new window?

Thanks,
Jason

 

[jemminger]

i don't believe you're allowed to access the parent window from modal/modeless dialogs - in fact, i think the parent is in fact the dialog itself.

dialogs are meant to send back a return value:
var returnVal = window.showModalDialog();
// do something with returnVal here =========================================================
if (!succeed) try();
-jeff