open popup and refresh previous page

[hassank1]

-I've a page where there's a link

-when I click the link a new popup opens

-after pressing a button(ex:submit) in the popup window I want the previous page (that opened the popup) to refresh

 

 

[rhodesa]

to open the child window:

window.open('child_page.php');

 

in the child window, to refresh the parent:

window.opener.window.location.reload();