communicating with other windows
If you have a web page made up of 3 frames and one of them creates a new window, how can you get that window to communicate back with the other frames. I've tried parent.name_of_frame.etc.. but it doesn't recognise any of the frames. Can anyone help please?
Vincent Puglia posted this at 00:52 — 16th March 2000.
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Hi,
If you open a window, you need to use "opener". To access a variable in the frame (or window) that opened the new window, you use:
opener.varName
If you intend to go to a different frame, you need to follow, the frameset heirarchy. Something like: parent.framename.opener.varName
Hope this helps
Vinny
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Lloyd Hassell posted this at 02:33 — 18th March 2000.
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Vinny:
I think you need to switch around your code a little.
opener.parent.framename
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