Problem with window opener in IE

[Soren Schimkat]

Hi

This works fine and adds a new element to the list:
document.forms['formname'].elements['listname'].options[0] = new
Option('foo', 'bar');
... but using the following code in a popup window - IE crashes or tells
me that the server threw an exception:
window.opener.d ocument.forms['formname'].elements['listname'].options[0]
= new Option('foo', 'bar')
The code works just fine in Firefox. Could someone give me at hint on
what's wrong here?

Kind regards Søren

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Soren Schimkat <sc******@noema il.hum.aau.dk> writes:

IE crashes or tells me that the server threw an exception:

window.opener.d ocument.forms['formname'].elements['listname'].options[0]
= new Option('foo', 'bar')

The code works just fine in Firefox. Could someone give me at hint on
what's wrong here?

Probably that you are adding an instance of Option from the current
document to a select from another document. I would try using the "Option"
constructor function from the other window, i.e., something like:

var otherWindow = window.opener;
otherWindow.doc ument.forms['formname'].elements['listname'].options[0] =
new otherWindow.Opt ions('foo','bar ');

Not sure whether it works, though. My tests are inconclusive :)
To avoid this cross-page DOM scripting, you could put a function on the
original page to do the work, and just call it from the opened page.

<script type="text/javascript">
function addOption(text, value) {
document.forms['formname'].elements['listname'].options[0] =
new Option(text,val ue);
}
</script>

and then just do
window.opener.a ddOption('foo', 'bar');
in the opened window.
/L
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[Soren Schimkat]

[snip]

To avoid this cross-page DOM scripting, you could put a function on the
original page to do the work, and just call it from the opened page.

yes offcourse .. that's the way to do. It works fine now. :-)

Tak for hjælpen.

mvh Søren


<script type="text/javascript">
function addOption(text, value) {
document.forms['formname'].elements['listname'].options[0] =
new Option(text,val ue);
}
</script>

and then just do
window.opener.a ddOption('foo', 'bar');
in the opened window.
/L

[Soren Schimkat]

[snip]

To avoid this cross-page DOM scripting, you could put a function on the
original page to do the work, and just call it from the opened page.

yes offcourse .. that's the way to do. It works fine now. :-)

Tak for hjælpen.

mvh Søren


<script type="text/javascript">
function addOption(text, value) {
document.forms['formname'].elements['listname'].options[0] =
new Option(text,val ue);
}
</script>

and then just do
window.opener.a ddOption('foo', 'bar');
in the opened window.
/L