[Javascript] Adding an item to a select list from another window

[David Lovering]

Great, but that's not how you do it -- at least according to the W3C spec.

var myElementIndex = eval('aValue[' + i + ']');  // may be unnecessary, as
I'm not sure how this variable is set in your example
var openerObject = window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[myElementIndex];
// this points to the select object you want to diddle with
var numItems = openerObject.length;  // number of entries already in
pull-down
openerObject.options[numItems] = new Option("myText", "myValue", false,
false);

Obviously, "myText", and "myValue" can be anything appropriate.

The last two booleans have to do with whether the item is selected, and/or
the default selection.

If your JavaScript environment is at all shaky you can put the right-hand
side of the logical assignments into "evals", although it usually works
without.

-- Dave Lovering


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Adding an item to a select list from another
window


> The first one updates the Select list's text and the other updates the
> Select list's value.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 06:07 AM, Chris Tifer wrote:
>
> >> It's good up until here.  This next line causes Explorer to
> >> unexpectedly quit.
> >>
> >> window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[aValue[i]].options[j].options
> >> [j
> >> ] = vFields;
> >
> >
> > I'm not particularly sure what you're doing here but what why are
> > there 2
> > options in a row?
> >
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