Gossamer Forum: General: Internet Technologies: Pop-up window, and when you click a link, it puts an ID name in a read-only box?

Nov 12, 2003, 6:00 AM

Andy

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Nov 12, 2003, 6:00 AM

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Pop-up window, and when you click a link, it puts an ID name in a read-only box?

Hi. I'm trying to do something, where you would click on a link, i.e;

View Cats

This would then open a new window up, with a list of categories. I then need some javascript that would cause a TEXT area to be populated with a category name that was clicked. i.e;

In the box we have;

/Root/Test
/Root/Test/Sub
/Root/Another
/Root/Something

...if I clicked on /Root/Test, then the window would close on its own, and the TEXT area in the main page would be populated with this value.

I know this is possible.. but I'm afraid to say my knowledge of Javascript is somewhat limited Frown

TIA

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 12, 2003, 11:09 AM

Watts

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Nov 12, 2003, 11:09 AM

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Re: [Andy] Pop-up window, and when you click a link, it puts an ID name in a read-only box? In reply to

FWIW... I use the following to populate a fax coversheet (ie, click here to print cover sheet) which pops-up.

<script>if (window.opener.form.Purpose.value == "Purchase") {document.write('Sales Contract')};</script>

So if the pop-up's "parent" is window.opener then perhaps you could populate the textarea field with:

window.opener.form.fieldname.value = form.pop-upfieldname.value;

Not sure... but it's worth a try.

Nov 13, 2003, 1:45 AM

Andy

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Nov 13, 2003, 1:45 AM

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Do you have an example of where this is done?

TIA

Andy (mod)
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Nov 13, 2003, 8:49 AM

Watts

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Nov 13, 2003, 8:49 AM

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See attached files... save main.htm and window.htm to the same directory and then launch main.htm and follow the directions.

This works in IE 6, not sure about other browsers.

I called the form NAME="form" if you name it anything else you'll need to change window.opener.form.value to window.opener.BOB.value (etc).

Nov 15, 2003, 1:22 AM

Andy

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Nov 15, 2003, 1:22 AM

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Thanks, but that didn't seem to do quite what I was looking for. I managed to get it working with the attached codes (open test.html, and then click the '...' button, which will open a button... you can then click an entry on that page, and it will complete the form data on the main page).

Thanks for the pointers though Smile

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 17, 2003, 9:05 AM

Watts

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Nov 17, 2003, 9:05 AM

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Re: [Andy] Pop-up window, and when you click a link, it puts an ID name in a read-only box? In reply to

Cool. I've saved a copy of your code for future use.

Pop-up window, and when you click a link, it puts an ID name in a read-only box?

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