parent.window with jquery

Question

$('#thelink').click(function(){
$('div#thedialog').dialog('open'); 
});

How do i change this to open window.parent´s div #thedialog.. can i do this?

Answer 1

Maybe this:

window.parent.$('div#thedialog').dialog('open');

That assumes that the parent window has pulled in its own copy of jQuery, of course. It might also work to do this:

$(window.parent).find('div#thedialog').dialog('open');

but I personally am pretty cautious about setting up stuff in one window using code that lives in another one. IE tends to get pretty freaky about that sometimes.