[thelist] JAVASCRIPT and IFRAMEs

[Phil Essing]

Tom,

Sorry if my conundrum ruined your day.  It actually did work, though.
My link now looks like this:
<a href="#"
onClick="self.opener.document.frames['IFRAME_ID'].formname.fieldname.val
ue">blah blah</a>

-phil

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Tom Dell'Aringa
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] JAVASCRIPT and IFRAMEs
>
>
> Phil, ignore my last message - that won't work.
>
> I'm not sure you are going to be able to reference the
> Iframe, since the popup window and the iframe are totally
> disconnected. Generally a page and its popup converse via
> opener, as you already know. How it can converse within a
> frame inside is the trick..
>
> But now you have ME working on it..LOL
>
> Tom
> --- Phil Essing <essing at vdl2.com> wrote:
> > Please ignore my last message, it included an error.
> >
> > I have a real doozy of a problem, that I'm hoping one of you
> > Javascript gurus, out there, will be able to help me with.
> Ok, on my
> > main HTML
> > page I have an IFRAME that loads another HTML document.  Within
> > this
> > second document (contained in the IFRAME) I have an SSI which
> > contains a
> > form.  In this form there is a link which opens a popup calendar,
> > with
> > each date hyperlinked.  When the user clicks a date, the value
> > needs to
> > be passed to the appropriate form fields.
> >
> > The problem:
> >
> > Trying to pass the values back to the form will not work using <a
> > href="#"
> > onClick="self.opener.document.formname.fieldname.value">day</a>.
> > The
> > code works outside of the IFRAME, because self.opener is apparent.
> > Within the IFRAME, however, I get the following error:
> > "self.opener.document.formname.fieldname.value" is not an object.
> >
> > So, my question is: how do I pass this value back to a form
> contained
> > within an IFRAME document?
> >
> > -phil
> >
> >
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> > phil at sector404.org
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