Hi DU,
Thanks for the info. I tried what you suggested, but I still can't get it
to work. The pages I'm playing around with are;
http://www.plussafety.com/asppage1.asp
and
http://www.plussafety.com/asppage2.asp
Any suggestions you could give would be greate.
Thanks!
Rick
"DU" <drunclear@hotNOSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
news:3e86reF1l9ssU1@uni-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> RWC wrote:[color=green]
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am new to JavaScript but until now, have felt my way along fairly
>> successfully. I have a page showing an image to the user. I use
>> window.open to open a separate page, listing a bunch of different images
>> that the user can select. When the user clicks "Submit", I'd like the
>> image selection page to close and update the image on the originating
>> page.
>>
>> To "play around" with this command until I can use it successfully, I
>> wrote the following;
>>
>> function Button1_onclick() {
>> window.opener.document.bgcolor='bisque'[/color]
>
> opener.document.style.backgroundColor = "#FFE4C4";
> //bisque == #FFE4C4 == 255,228,196
>[color=green]
>> window.opener.location.reload()[/color]
>
> opener.location.reload(true);
>[color=green]
>> window.close()[/color]
>
> if(window.close)
> {
> window.close();
> };
>
> Note that you can not close a window not opened by javascript. Also, some
> browsers (Mozilla-based browsers) can prevent javascript-initiated window
> from being closed via javascript.
>[color=green]
>> }
>>
>> The line for changing the back ground color to bisque I pulled from the
>> netscape site javascript reference for Window.Opener.
>>
>> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in Advance!
>> Rick
>>[/color]
>
> What was not working? Can you provide an url where the problem is?
>
> DU
> --
> The site said to use Internet Explorer 5 or better... so I switched to
> Firefox 1.0.3 :)[/color]
