Using window.opener to try and set a value in the originating window

[RWC]

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'
window.opener.location.reload()
window.close()
}

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

[DU]

RWC wrote:

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'
opener.document.style.backgroundColor = "#FFE4C4";
//bisque == #FFE4C4 == 255,228,196
window.opener.location.reload()
opener.location.reload(true);
window.close()
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.
}

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

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 :)

[RWC]

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
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RWC wrote:

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'

opener.document.style.backgroundColor = "#FFE4C4";
//bisque == #FFE4C4 == 255,228,196

window.opener.location.reload()

opener.location.reload(true);

window.close()

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.

}

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

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 :)