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Reload a specific frame from a popup window

I have a popup window, and from there, I want the parent window to reload, but a specific frame not the entire page.
So a user clicks a button from within a frame, it opens the popup. Now from the popup, based on a specific event, I want to reload a frame from the parent window.
Is this possible in IE?
I have a page index.php that has 2 iframes in it.
From the 2nd iframe a new popup window opens.
When the user clicks on a button or closes the popup window, I want to reload iframe#2 (the one that opened the window).
How can I do this?
I have tried:
opener.location.reload();
opener.top.document.getElementById('myIFrameId').location.reload()
opener.myIFrameId.location.reload();
Nothing seems to work.

I found a great jQuery plugin that works in all modern browsers, including IE8.
It allows you to easily call up a secondary browser window with parameters and then your allowed to pass data between the two, similar to how postMessage API works.
These data messages in turn can load new content or alternate webpage into the original iframe2 that's on your parent page once you analyze the incoming jQuery data.
Article: jQuery plugin for communication between browser windows
Online Demo: Parent Page
Download Project: windowmsg.zip
The downloaded files will work directly from your desktop, unlike jsFiddle since it's not permitted there.
Yet another solution that works great when you don't need a secondary browser window and the use of a floating iframe is acceptable, just use a lightbox clone that's iframe capable, such as Shadowbox-js.
The benefit of this method is that your in complete control of how the iframe closes, unlike the above secondary browser window that has it's own browser close button which may not trigger your desired events.
The callback during the lightbox clone closure event can take care of changing the contents in the parent pages iframe 2 as needed. Also, you can choose to have the lightbox bound within the iframe 2 (lightbox clone installed in iframe page), or have it fullscreen (lightbox clone installed in parent page).

In your case, window.opener is the window object of the iframe that opened the popup, so opener.location.reload() should work: Demo
Demo sources:
Main page: http://jsfiddle.net/jefferyto/DWeYZ/
Iframe: http://jsfiddle.net/jefferyto/WWbg9/
Popup: http://jsfiddle.net/jefferyto/TKQUJ/

I kind of rebuilt this functionality here:
http://jsfiddle.net/JBWTn/3/
Clicking the button in the popup will change the border look of a frame in the original window . The key here is navigating through the original window's frames using
window.opener.document.getElementById('[ID_OF_YOUR_FRAME]')
(quite similar to what Frank van Puffelen suggested)
To reload the frame instead of just changing its style, use
window.opener.document.getElementById('[ID_OF_YOUR_FRAME]').location.reload()
...like you tried in your question already.
This question reminded me of the functionality in phpMyAdmin (where you can run SQL queries from a popup window and have the results shown in the main window), so I had a quick look ;)

Have you tried:
opener.frames["myIFrameId"].location.reload();

it will show error "Error: Permission denied to access property 'reload'"
that's possibly "the same origin policy" problem.
or you create a div wrapper over the iframe and re generate iframe again

Can you capture a popup and load it in the parent/opener screen?

I am working on an app where I have a flash app that access a URL through an iFrame. The contents of the iFrame is 3rd party content. The content is a menu that you can navigate through but once you get to a certain point, the menu launches a pop up, and the popup is the continuation of the menu.
I was wondering if there is anyway that I could capture the popup and make it load within the parent/opener page, using jQuery perhaps to change the contents of the iframe?
This solution is probably way out there but I was just hoping for a nice quick fix.
The reason that this is a problem is that the app is for a tablet and the popup doesn't appear within an app on the tablet.
Thanks

If the iFrame content is served from a different domain than the parent/owner document, you're out of luck - that is, if you have no control over the iframe content. This is due to JavaScript's same origin policy.
If you are able to modify the web app running inside the iframe, you could try using window.postMessage (HTML5) to notify the parent window.

Getting a Google Form in an IFrame with Auto Height

So I have a form that I built with Google Docs because it seemed easier than going from scratch. I've gotten this to work by copy-pasting the code from google's page to one on my domain.
I managed to get it to auto-size its height with this lovely little script I found here: http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-89000/tm.htm (this is not another thread about HOW to dynamically resize an iframe)
function changeContent() {
document.getElementById('contentDIV').innerHTML = window.frames['contentFRAME'].document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML;
}
and the iframe on MY displayed page:
<div class="right" id="contentDIV">
<iframe id="contentFRAME" src="raw-form.html" name="contentFRAME" onLoad="changeContent()" style="height:0; width:0; border-width:0;">Loading...</iframe>
</div>
But now when I hit submit, the confirmation or error page opens in the _parent window (might be _top) - instead of in the iframe (_self, which is supposed to be the default?). target="" is depreciated and doesn't work. This also happens with ANY link inside the iframe.
I've tried a couple different resize scripts, but I don't know enough to figure it out? Or the code doesn't actually work for my purposes? I'm not sure... Here's what I have working: http://fiendconsulting.com/60minutedesign/form-embed.html
What I need: Something that resizes the iframe content on first load of the Parent page and which opens all links in their _self frame/page/whatever.
What I don't care about: Resizing the iframe to fit the content of subsequent pages. If I click a link inside the iframe, I don't need the iframe to resize to whatever page I just went to.
I'm a self-taught programmer and I have some interesting gaps in my knowledge. I also just started learning JS and PHP and am at the Read, Comment and Cannibalize stage. It's better to assume I don't know, and it would help me a LOT if you told me where to Put the code (which document and where in the document). :)

I'm unsure of what you are trying to do because the links you provided do not seem to work; however, I believe your problem might be because of your resize function.
Your function:
function changeContent() {
document.getElementById('contentDIV').innerHTML = window.frames['contentFRAME'].document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML;
}
You take the element 'contentDiv', you take the HTML of your 'iframe' and then you set the same to your content div. This results in your 'iframe' not existing any more.
For example:
let's say my content div had this:
<div class="right" id="contentDIV">
<iframe id="contentFRAME" src="raw-form.html" name="contentFRAME" onLoad="changeContent()" style="height:0; width:0; border-width:0;">Loading...</iframe>
</div>
My iframe has only 1 link: Example Link
After your function, your contentDiv now looks like:
<div class="right" id="contentDIV">
Example Link
</div>
you have effectively removed your iframe and put the contents of the iframe (the link) into your main div. Now if you click on the element, it'll automatically open on the same page - i.e. the 'parent' but there is no parent anymore!
So going forward, you should not be replacing the content; instead you should be modifying the height/width of the iframe. Have a look at:
Adjust width height of iframe to fit with content in it

Refresh an Iframe Once Upon Page Load

I have a cross browser iframe that is working minus one small detail. The initial frame load does not re-size all the way. So items are cut off at the bottom of the screen. It re-sizes perfectly if the frame is refreshed.
Is there a way to refresh an iframe once on the page load?
Example is here:
http://www.aans.org/aansmarketplace.aspx
goto multimedia products and select dvd. You will notice content cut off at the bottom of the screen...but if you reload the frame all of the content shows.

<iframe id="iframe" src="empty_script.php" />
<script>
$(function(){
$("#iframe").attr('src', 'your_Script.php');
});
</Script>

How are you resizing the iframe? If you have access to iframe containing page use onload event of iframe, calculate the inner document height and set it to iframe. This works perfectly fine in all browser.

Scroll to top of parent frame on iframe change?

Is it possible to scroll(0,0) to the top of the parent page when the user browses in an iframe? For example, we have an iframe that is the entire height of the page with search results. When you click the next page button in the iframe, the focus stays at the bottom of the page.
I'm not even sure if it's possible to detect this. The iframe src value doesn't actually change.
P.S. I don't know why this site must use an iframe, but IE6 is the standard browser so I didn't ask questions.

Actually, the onload event does appear to work when navigating within an iframe.
<iframe src="http://mysite.com" height="2392px" width="100%" name="searchFrame" onload="scroll(0,0);"></iframe>

As an alternative, you can have the iframe ask the parent frame to scroll to the top with
parent.scrollTo(0,0);
I haven't researched the official browser support for it, but it works in IE9, FF10, Chrome 17 and Safari 5.1.

<iframe onload="parent.location= 'http://mysite.com/page.html#nameofdivonthetopofpage';" ...