First a basic outline of what I am trying to do:
I want to have a page spawn a pop-up when you click "submit" on its
form. On this pop-up page there will be another form. When you click
"submit" on the pop-up's form I want the pop-up to close & a new page
to load in the "parent" window/page. I have this working in IE but
cannot get it to work in Firefox. The parent window correctly loads
the new page after submitting from the pop-up, however the pop-up will
not close. Here is what I have in my pop-up page:
<body bgcolor=#fffff0
onLoad="window. opener.name='ma inPage';window. opener.opener=w indow">
Basically giving a name to the parent window & then setting the parent
window's opener to the pop-up. Here is my form tag for the pop-up
page:
<form action=geturls. jsp target="mainPag e" onSubmit="retur n
validate(this)" >
So now the target of the submission from the pop-up is the initial
parent window. The next page which loads in the parent window (after
submitting from the pop-up) has the following body tag:
<body bgcolor=#fffff0 onLoad="javascr ipt:window.open er.close()">
Since I set the pop-up as the opener of the parent window from the
pop-up html with the tag I show above, this should work. It does work
perfectly in IE but in Firefox the pop-up stays open & I get the
following javascript error:
window.opener has no properties
I am using Firefox 0.9.3.
I should also mention that the "validate() " method in pop-up needs to
return "true" if there are no validation errors with the pop-up's form
& then post the form to the main page since it loads a *different*
page (i.e. it doesn't just reload the page already loaded in the
parent window), so I cannot just call "window.close() " in the
validate() function.
Thanks!
I want to have a page spawn a pop-up when you click "submit" on its
form. On this pop-up page there will be another form. When you click
"submit" on the pop-up's form I want the pop-up to close & a new page
to load in the "parent" window/page. I have this working in IE but
cannot get it to work in Firefox. The parent window correctly loads
the new page after submitting from the pop-up, however the pop-up will
not close. Here is what I have in my pop-up page:
<body bgcolor=#fffff0
onLoad="window. opener.name='ma inPage';window. opener.opener=w indow">
Basically giving a name to the parent window & then setting the parent
window's opener to the pop-up. Here is my form tag for the pop-up
page:
<form action=geturls. jsp target="mainPag e" onSubmit="retur n
validate(this)" >
So now the target of the submission from the pop-up is the initial
parent window. The next page which loads in the parent window (after
submitting from the pop-up) has the following body tag:
<body bgcolor=#fffff0 onLoad="javascr ipt:window.open er.close()">
Since I set the pop-up as the opener of the parent window from the
pop-up html with the tag I show above, this should work. It does work
perfectly in IE but in Firefox the pop-up stays open & I get the
following javascript error:
window.opener has no properties
I am using Firefox 0.9.3.
I should also mention that the "validate() " method in pop-up needs to
return "true" if there are no validation errors with the pop-up's form
& then post the form to the main page since it loads a *different*
page (i.e. it doesn't just reload the page already loaded in the
parent window), so I cannot just call "window.close() " in the
validate() function.
Thanks!
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