Goal: From window A, I want to manipulate the DOM of window B, where window B is the result of calling window.open().
My attempts are shown below, but Window B is never updated. winRef = window.open("","Window B"); Try 1: $(winRef).find("body").append("<div id=container>mr container</div>"); Try 2: $(winRef).find("body").html("<div id=container>mr container</div>"); Try 3: $(winRef.document.body).append("<div id=container>mr container</ div>"); Try 4: $(winRef.document.body).html("<div id=container>mr container</div>"); The jQuery Core doc (http://docs.jquery.com/Core/jQuery#elements) claims that it can wrap a window object. Browser is FF2.0 Any tip is greatly appreciated, even if "that's impossible".