jQuery select element in parent window

Use the context-parameter

$("#testdiv",parent.document)

But if you really use a popup, you need to access opener instead of parent

$("#testdiv",opener.document)

jquery jquery-selectors popup parent

I looked for a solution to this problem, and came across the present page. I implemented the above solution:

$("#testdiv",opener.document) //doesn't work

But it doesn't work. Maybe it did work in previous jQuery versions, but it doesn't seem to work now.

I found this working solution on another stackoverflow page:how to access parent window object using jquery?

From which I got this working solution:

window.opener.$("#testdiv") //This works.

jquery jquery-selectors popup parent

I came across the same problem but, as stated above, the accepted solution did not work for me.

If you're inside a frame or iframe element, an alternative solution is to use

window.parent.$('#testdiv');

window.opener refers to the window that called window.open( ... ) to open the window from which it's called
window.parent refers to the parent of a window in a frame or iframe element

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