How to find modal dialog opener from javascript?

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Published on 2009-06-25T12:28:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 11:23 UTC
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I have a page that opens a modal dialog. After the operations done on dialog I want to refresh the opener page. But when I open the popup by using "openDialog" I cannot access to the opener by using window.opener on popup page. It appears "undefined" when I wanted to access. (I dont want to use "popup" method in this case. I want it to be a dialog by the way. using "popup" is my second plan.)

What is the best practice to get rid off this issue?

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