fogwolf wrote:
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> First a basic outline of what I am trying to do:
>
> I want to have a page spawn a pop-up when you click "submit" on its
> form. On this pop-up page there will be another form. When you click
> "submit" on the pop-up's form I want the pop-up to close & a new page
> to load in the "parent" window/page. I have this working in IE but
> cannot get it to work in Firefox. The parent window correctly loads
> the new page after submitting from the pop-up, however the pop-up will
> not close. Here is what I have in my pop-up page:
>
> <body bgcolor=#fffff0
> onLoad="window.opener.name='mainPage';window.opene r.opener=window">
>
> Basically giving a name to the parent window & then setting the parent
> window's opener to the pop-up. Here is my form tag for the pop-up
> page:
>
> <form action=geturls.jsp target="mainPage" onSubmit="return
> validate(this)">
>
> So now the target of the submission from the pop-up is the initial
> parent window. The next page which loads in the parent window (after
> submitting from the pop-up) has the following body tag:
>
> <body bgcolor=#fffff0 onLoad="javascript
:window.opener.close()">
>
> Since I set the pop-up as the opener of the parent window from the
> pop-up html with the tag I show above, this should work. It does work
> perfectly in IE but in Firefox the pop-up stays open & I get the
> following javascript error:
>
> window.opener has no properties
>
> I am using Firefox 0.9.3.[/color]
It would appear that Firefox does not set window.opener when a window is
opened using the TARGET attribute alone. So open the window using
JavaScript and window.opener will be set appropriately (assuming the
window opens at all that is).
Variation on <url:
http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_37 />:
<form action=geturls.jsp target="mainPage"
onSubmit="
if (validate(this)) {
window.open('', this.target);
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
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