Passing info from one page to another - tricky problem

[Edwin]

I've been Googling & can't find a consistent cross-browser (IE & Firefox) answer to
this...

I need to pass some data from inside an iframe, to the parent page

I've got the parent page PAGE1.HTM which contains
<div ID="mydata"></div>
:
<iframe src="page2.htm"></iframe>
And, inside PAGE2.HTM I will set mydata to a hard string. But in page2.htm do I do

var parent.document.mydata.innerHTML = "my data here'

or

var window.parent.document.all.mydata.innerHTML = "my data here"

or something else...??? to be cross-browser compatible (IE and Firefox mainly).
Thanks!

[Randy Webb]

Edwin said the following on 8/7/2006 2:14 PM:

I've been Googling & can't find a consistent cross-browser (IE & Firefox) answer to
this...

Then you didn't Google very hard in the archives of c.l.j

I need to pass some data from inside an iframe, to the parent page

I've got the parent page PAGE1.HTM which contains
<div ID="mydata"></div>
:
<iframe src="page2.htm"></iframe>
And, inside PAGE2.HTM I will set mydata to a hard string. But in page2.htm do I do

var parent.document.mydata.innerHTML = "my data here'

or

var window.parent.document.all.mydata.innerHTML = "my data here"

or something else...??? to be cross-browser compatible (IE and Firefox mainly).

window.parent.document.getElementById('mydata').in nerHTML

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/