HTML5 - Cross Browser iframe postMessage - child to parent?

I've been following this tutorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2hOvZ7bwXU, which explains how to use postMessage to securely pass a message between iframe and parent - you basically end up with something like this - http://html5demos.com/postmessage2

My problem is that I need it to work the opposite way round (child to parent) and don't know how to target the parent window.

this is my receiver code (in the parent):

function handleMsg(e) {
    if(e.origin == "http://uc.dialogue.net") {
        let blah = e.data;
        alert(blah);    
    } else {
        alert("error");
    }
}
addEventListener("message", handleMsg, true);

and this is the sender function that is triggered by a simple form (in child):

   let text = document.querySelector('.srchInput').value;
   window.parent.postMessage(text, "http://uc.dialogue.net");

Should I be targeting the parent in a different way?

Cheers Paul

var eventMethod = window.addEventListener ? "addEventListener" : "attachEvent";
var eventer = window[eventMethod];
var messageEvent = eventMethod == "attachEvent" ? "onmessage" : "message";

// Listen to message from child window
eventer(messageEvent,function(e) {
    var key = e.message ? "message" : "data";
    var data = e[key];
    //run function//
},false);

Got it to work with the above in the parent page and the following in the child page -

parent.postMessage("loadMyOrders","*");  //  `*` on any domain

Code copied from here.

Unpacked the accepted answer using newer ecma262 spec, and dropping ie8 support:

window.addEventListener('message', e => {
    const key = e.message ? 'message' : 'data';
    const data = e[key];

    // ...
},false);

Relevant documentation:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=addeventlistener
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/message_event#Examples

HTML5 - Cross Browser iframe postMessage - child to parent?

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