You're opening a blank window; it has no DOM to manipulate (you'd have
to resort to document.write).
On Jun 23, 4:29 pm, ieatsleepsurf <michael.schwart...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Goal: From window A, I want to manipulate the DOM of window B, where
> window B is the result of calling window.open().
>
> My attempts are shown below, but Window B is never updated.
>
> winRef = window.open("","Window B");
>
> Try 1:
> $(winRef).find("body").append("<div id=container>mr container</div>");
>
> Try 2:
> $(winRef).find("body").html("<div id=container>mr container</div>");
>
> Try 3:
> $(winRef.document.body).append("<div id=container>mr container</
> div>");
>
> Try 4:
> $(winRef.document.body).html("<div id=container>mr container</div>");
>
> The jQuery Core doc (http://docs.jquery.com/Core/jQuery#elements)
> claims that it can wrap a window object.
> Browser is FF2.0
>
> Any tip is greatly appreciated, even if "that's impossible".
