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HELP!
I've been working on a small e-commerce site with the Access DB and ASP. I have one variable to get from a form that I open in a separate window and bring back to the current form in the current window. I would like to keep the sections all in this current form and not break it into separate forms. Can anybody tell me how to bring data back to the open form?
Thanks.
JavaScript, you'll probably get a better response in teh Client Side Scripting forum.
I'll get this moved for you
See the following example. Use the 'opener' object to get to your initial window.
Code:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> <script language="javascript"> <!-- function popup() { var win = window.open('','','toolbar=yes,scrollbars=yes,width=200,height=300') win.document.write('<html><body><input type="text" name="intext" id="intext"><br>'); win.document.write('<a href="javascript:opener.document.forms[0].mytext.value=intext.value;this.close()">close</a>'); win.document.write('</body></html>'); } //--> </script> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#FF0000" VLINK="#800000" ALINK="#FF00FF" BACKGROUND="?"> <form name="myform" id="myform"> <input type="text" id="mytext" name="mytext" onclick="javascript:popup();"> </form> </BODY> </HTML>
I tried your code and could not get it to work. This is really driving me crazy. Any more help?
Thanks
Can you be more specific... I tried the code and it works with ie5+ Be aware that this forum added an extra space between java and script in the code.
Thanks for writing back Doggi.
I've been working on this and got it all to work except:
win.document.write('<a href="java scriptpener.document.forms[0].mytext.value=intext.value;this.close()">close</a>');
I am actually coding this into the remote window to put the value into the opener window. I had too much code in the window to switch. so my code really is:
opener.document.update.FormNum.value= FeeNumber.value;
to accomplish this. If I replace the reference on the right with a string it works. The string value comes into the opener input element and the remote window closes. I just can't understand why the reference to the radio input name (FeeNumber).value pair doesn't work (return a value). AUUGGHH!
Doggi,
I just read this at a site called "JavaScript Weenie"
If you want to transfer values between windows, you're asking for trouble. The reason is that you're entering into Document Object Model (DOM) territory, and the Netscape and Explorer DOMs are quite different. It's not too hard to make the transfer work in just one type of browser, but doing it for both main browsers requires many lines of cross-browser JavaScript. In fact the cross-browser version is so difficult that it's rarely done - we've found no reference to it on the Internet. You'll almost certainly have to parse the browser and supply different code for the two main types.
Maybe I should look at another way to accomplish this task such as writing to a temporary database table?
Thanks
try this
instead ofCode:opener.document.update.FormNum.value=document.formname.FeeNumber.value;
if this doesn't work try figuring out if you can access the value of FeeNumber.valueCode:opener.document.update.FormNum.value= FeeNumber.value;
As a suggestion add the following line in your code just to check whether you are even getting the vaue ...
You can remove the line once the code works ..Code:document.title = document.formname.FeeNumber.value;
Note: formname is name of your form in the PopUp Window.
Amit, thanks for the suggestion. I did try that and still could not get it to work. I have resorted to checking the radio buttons individually and using the array number to send back which choice number was selected. I am also looking at cookies and session level variables in ASP.
HELP! This is driving me crazy!!
What I'm trying to do is for the user to press a button(called choose order form) to jump out to another window thru JavaScript have the user make an enty by pressing a radio button (no submit), close the remote window, bring the user back to the original window form and print a result from a database (based on the data from the remote window) underneath the button (called choose order form).
Below is the jumping control structure I'm trying to make work
<%
Dim Cook1, FeeNum, state, objRSfee, strSQLfee, Fee, FormName
call getname
call doit
%>
<%
sub getname
response.write "<script language='javaScript'>"
response.write "var win=window.open('OrderFeeSchedule2001.html','orderfees','scrollbars=yes,toolbars=yes,width=616,height=300');"
response.write "</script>"
end sub
%>
<%
sub doit
'Dim Cook1, FeeNum, state
Cook1 = request.cookies
FeeNum = Left(cook1,2)
'Dim objRSfee, strSQLfee, Fee, FormName
strSQLfee = "SELECT * FROM fees WHERE form_number Like '" & FeeNum &"'"
set objRSfee = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
objRSfee.Open strSQLfee,objConn,adOpenStatic,adLockReadOnly, adCmdText
If objRSfee.EOF Then
Fee = ""
FormName = ""
Else
Fee = objRSfee("form_cost")
FormName = objRSfee("form_name")
End If
end sub
%>
<%Response.Write " "&FormName%>
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