frames and forms

JoeBaker

i'm trying to use javascript to change the content of a textbox in a
different frame.

by clicking on a 'folder' link in 'leftFrame' i want to put the value
assigned by that link into the 'folderName' textbox in the
'uploadForm' form in 'mainFrame'. i'm doing this as...

onClick="parent.mainFrame.uploadForm.folderName.va lue='folder';"

this works perfectly fine with IE and Safari on my Mac OS X machine
and IE 6 on my PC laptop but anything Mozilla-based on either machine
gives me an error i just can't seem to get round...

'parent.mainFrame.uploadForm has no properties'

has anyone got any ideas why and what i can do about it, please?

many thanks

joe

Jul 20 '05 #1

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

js*****@btclick.com (JoeBaker) writes:

'parent.mainFrame.uploadForm has no properties' has anyone got any ideas why and what i can do about it, please?

You use the name of the form as a global variable. There is no reason
to believe that that should work, except that IE decided to allow it.
Try the fully qualified path:

parent.frames['mainFrame'].document.forms['uploadForm'].
elements['folderName'].value = ...

It is always safer to use the appropriate collections.

/L
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Jul 20 '05 #2