Yeah, I was inside the iframe - sorry, I forgot to point that out! I very
much appreciate your solution - it is much simpler and very concise. Hard to
believe I spent 3 hours on it when the solution was only two lines of code!
Very cool. Again, thanks a billion!
Michael Geary wrote:
>
>> I was able to take what you sent me and simplify it down to this:
>>
>> var frameWindow = document.parentWindow || document.defaultView;
>> var outerDiv = $(frameWindow.frameElement.parentNode);
>> cls = $('div.tb_close', outerDiv).get(0);
>>
>> Because I actually want to operate on a child of the outer
>> div (which I didn't specify as it wasn't relevant). And I
>> figured out that I could use document because when I am
>> executing the javascript, I don't need the link, merely the
>> link's document, and document is what I need. Works in both
>> FF and IE as well.
>
> It sounds like your code is actually running inside the IFRAME, is that
> correct? It sounded like you only had a reference to an element inside the
> iframe, thus the ownerDocument/parentWindow/defaultView stuff to find the
> frame window.
>
> But if your code is running in the IFRAME, then "window" is already the
> frame window. So you can simplify even further:
>
> var outerDiv = $(frameElement.parentNode);
> cls = $('div.tb_close', outerDiv).get(0);
>
> -Mike
>
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