Submit form to pop-up - why does this code not work?

[jeff@dnuk.com]

I want to press a submit button on a form and then a pop-up Window opens
to process the form data.


I have a form with this HTML code:

<form action="/test.php" method="post" name="testform" onSubmit="newWi ndowForm('testf orm')">


And here is the javascript for the top of the page:

function newWindowForm(f ormname)
{
//alert(formname) ;
var popUp = window.open ('','popUp','sc rollbars=no,res izable=no,width =450,height=350 ');
document.formna me.target = 'popUp';
}


The problem is this line:

document.formna me.target = 'popUp';


I've obviously got the syntax wrong. I've checked that the "formname" parameter
is being passed to the javascript, it is. You can test it by using the
"alert(formname );" line to see what it is.

A quick way to fix this is to harcode the formname into the javascript:

document.testfo rm.target = 'popUp';


However, there will be lots of these forms in my website and I want
to use 1 piece of code for each form, instead of coding each javascript.

Can this be done?

Cheers

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Submit form to pop-up - why does this code not work?



jeff@dnuk.com wrote:
[color=blue]
> I want to press a submit button on a form and then a pop-up Window opens
> to process the form data.
>
>
> I have a form with this HTML code:
>
> <form action="/test.php" method="post" name="testform" onSubmit="newWi ndowForm('testf orm')">
>
>
> And here is the javascript for the top of the page:
>
> function newWindowForm(f ormname)
> {
> //alert(formname) ;
> var popUp = window.open ('','popUp','sc rollbars=no,res izable=no,width =450,height=350 ');
> document.formna me.target = 'popUp';
> }
>
>
> The problem is this line:
>
> document.formna me.target = 'popUp';
>[/color]

I guess you want
<form target="windowN ame"
onsubmit="windo w.open('', this.target, 'width=...');
return true;"

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Martin Honnen

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