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how to access parent window object using jquery?

I have the following jquery code 

var events = $(window.opener).find("tr.athletics-date");
        var events_length = events.length;

I'm trying to retrieve all of the tr tags with class athletics-date from the parent page (which opened up the present new page) and its not working. The class name is correct, what am I doing wrong? events_lenth came up as 0!

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  • i believe you want `window.opener.document` since window.opener gets you the parent window, not parent document. Not 100% sure though (otherwise i would make this an answer) – Kevin B Sep 06 '12 at 21:40
  • That did it! Thanks! you can post this as an answer. – user1015214 Sep 06 '12 at 21:42

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window.opener gives you the window object, you want the document object.

$(window.opener.document).find(...
Kevin B
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window.opener.document makes the difference.

Try this:

var events = $(window.opener.document).find("tr.athletics-date");
var events_length = events.length;
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