[Javascript] Open page in frame from popup window

[Peter Brunone]

	Maybe it's just old-school precaution, but not every browser assigns the
opener attribute implicitly.  I didn't know the target audience, and an
extra line or two of code won't make or break a site.

|-----Original Message-----
|From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
|Behalf Of Rodney Myers
|
|Or just
|window.opener.top.mainFrame.location.href = "whatever.html";
|??
|
|Rodney
|
|Peter Brunone wrote:
|
|> Phill,
|>
|>         First, make sure that when you open the window, you set
|it to a variable,
|> and then assign the opener property in case it wasn't set, e.g.
|>
|> var newWin = window.open(yadda yadda);
|> newWin.opener = top;
|>
|>         And then in the new window:
|>
|> window.opener.frames.mainFrame.location.href = "whatever.html";
|>
|> Regards,
|>
|> Peter
|>
|> |-----Original Message-----
|> |Behalf Of Phillip Morgan
|> |I have a site I'm putting together which is framed. It pops up a small
|> |navigation page with links to other pages. I'd like the links in this
|> |navigation page to open the selected page in the parent framed site.
|> |
|> |There are 4 frames on the main page: topleft, navleft, navtop and
|> |mainFrame. The links in the popup nav window need to load the linked
|> |pages in mainFrame.
|> |
|> |How can I do this?
|
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