Get opener element from a child

geotso

Hi

How do I get the contents of an element in the opener and show them in the
child?
What I'm trying to do is something like this:

In the opener: <h1 id="pgtitle">Office XP</h1>

In the child:
function gt_pageCont () {
var pagetitle = window.opener.document.getElementById("pgtitle");
var pagetext = "<h1>\""+title+"\"</h1><p>Here are some more info about \""
+title+ "\".</p>";
document.write(pagetext);
}

and:
<body onload="gt_pageCont();">

I know that something is missing in the function, because I've tested it and
the child displays [Object] instead of "Office XP". Can someone help me
please?

Thanks.

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Jul 23 '05 #1

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Daniel Kirsch

geotso wrote:

function gt_pageCont () {
var pagetitle = window.opener.document.getElementById("pgtitle");
var pagetext = "<h1>\""+title+"\"</h1><p>Here are some more info about \""
+title+ "\".</p>";
document.write(pagetext);
}

var pagetitle = opener.document.getElementById("pgtitle").innerHTM L;
var pagetext = "<h1>\""+pagetitle+"\"<\/h1><p>Here are some more info
about \""
+pagetitle+ "\".<\/p>";
document.write(pagetext);
}

Instead of using document.write() you may also set an element's
innerHTML property accordingly.

Daniel

Jul 23 '05 #2

RobG

Daniel Kirsch wrote:
[...]

var pagetitle = opener.document.getElementById("pgtitle").innerHTM L;

You could also use:

opener.document.getElementById('pgtitle').firstChi ld.data;

But both methods have the restriction that if there is anything in the
pgtitle element other than plain text, you will not get what you want.

e.g. if you add extra markup inside the element, the innerHTML method
will return the extra markup along with the text and the firstChild
method will do different things depending on where the markup is.

e.g.
<h1 id="pgtitle">Office <span
style="font-weight: normal;">XP</span></h1>

will return "Office "

<h1 id="pgtitle"><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Office XP</span></h1>

will return "undefined".

Which highlights that using the document content as a source of data is
not always reliable, particularly when HTML munges markup and content
so thoroughly. Maybe you should consider putting the pgtitle value
somewhere else where it will not be affected by markup - say a global
variable for the opener page or a meta tag? That should mean you don't
need to parse whatever is returned to ensure it is what you want.

If you stick with the innerHTML method, you probably should use a
regular expression to remove any markup between tag delimiters.

Or have I been rambling for no particular purpose...

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Jul 23 '05 #3

Daniel Kirsch

RobG wrote:

But both methods have the restriction that if there is anything in the
pgtitle element other than plain text, you will not get what you want.

innerHTML returns the original HTML. If you just want to get the text
content without markup, one might use innerText (IE) or textContent
(newer Geckos) or of course a regExp on the innerHTML value.

Daniel

Jul 23 '05 #4

Randy Webb

Daniel Kirsch wrote:

RobG wrote:
But both methods have the restriction that if there is anything in the
pgtitle element other than plain text, you will not get what you want.

innerHTML returns the original HTML.

No, it returns the normalized HTML as generated by the browser.

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Jul 23 '05 #5

Daniel Kirsch

Randy Webb wrote:

No, it returns the normalized HTML as generated by the browser.

Of course.

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