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    copied!<p>I have an open web page dialog. From there, what I'd like to do is when the user clicks on a link, refresh the contents of the dialog with modified query string parameters. The problem I am running into is that rather than refresh the same web page with new parameters, a new browser window pops up.</p> <p>Here is the page used to open the dialog:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; function ShowPopup() { var popWinFeatures = "dialogWidth: 800px;dialogHeight:600px;center:yes;status:no;scroll:no;resizable:yes;help:no"; window.showModalDialog("webPageDialog.html","PopUpWin",popWinFeatures); } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;a href="#" id="openWebPageDialog" onclick="ShowPopup()"&gt;Click For Modal&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>and this is the code within the webpage dialog that attempts to refresh the webpage with changed query string parameters:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt; &lt;script src="scripts/jquery-1.6.4.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; $(document).ready(function(){ var queryString = "?ab=123"; var newURL = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + "/" + window.location.pathname; $('#testLink').attr('href', newURL+queryString); }); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;a href="#" onclick="" id="testLink" target="_self"&gt;Please Click Me&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I've also tried using <code>window.open</code> as well as setting <code>window.location</code>. And I've also tried setting <code>window.location.href</code> but the result was the same.</p> <p>the new browser window displays exactly what I expect. It's just not in the same window.</p> <p>Thoughts?</p>
 

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