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Form in Child Win won't submit to parent in NN

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ChrisQuick

ChrisQuick

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I have a function set as the OnClick event for a button.

The code for the function is:
Code: 
<script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; language=&quot;JavaScript 1.2&quot;>
  function showNewLegendWindow() {
    ccMapLegend=window.open('','msg','toolbar=yes,location=yes,menubar=yes,height=300,width=200,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,left=0,top=0')
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<html><head><title>Legend</title>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;</head><body>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<form OnSubmit=\&quot;self.close()\&quot;>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 COLS=1><tr><td align='center'>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<INPUT TYPE=submit STYLE=\&quot;{background-color: blue; color: white}\&quot; VALUE='Refresh Layers' OnClick=\&quot;this.form.target=opener.name\&quot;></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<input type=hidden name=name value='columbia'>&quot;)

ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<input type=hidden name=cmd value='refresh'>&quot;)
    
ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot; <INPUT TYPE='hidden' NAME='Left' Value=572139.071912><INPUT TYPE='hidden' NAME='Bottom' Value=1220284.87947><INPUT TYPE='hidden' NAME='Right' Value=698089.798366><INPUT TYPE='hidden' NAME='Top' Value=1346088.755075>  &quot;)

ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Tax_Parcels' Checked><Font face='arial' size='1'>Tax Parcels</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Buildings'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Buildings</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='FEMA_Firm'><Font face='arial' size='1'>FEMA Firm</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Police_Beats'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Police Beats</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Wetlands'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Wetlands</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Lakes'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Lakes</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Streams'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Streams</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Zoning'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Zoning</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Fire_Districts'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Fire Districts</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Drainage_Basins'><Font face='arial' size='1'>Drainage Basins</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='Primary_Roads' Checked><Font face='arial' size='1'>Primary Roads</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='City_Limits' Checked><Font face='arial' size='1'>City Limits</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;<tr><td align='left'><INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME='County_Boundary' Checked><Font face='arial' size='1'>County Boundary</font></input></td></tr>&quot;)
    ccMapLegend.document.write(&quot;</table></form></body></html>&quot;)
}
</script>

A new window will open and display the form. The user can then check or uncheck boxes and then press the &quot;Refresh Layers&quot; button to submit the form back to the parent.


This works fine in IE, but in NetScape, the window simply closes. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

chrisquick@aol.com
Geographic Information System (GIS), ASP, some Oracle
 
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To my understanding, the onsubmit event is called before the form actually submits (maybe it should be called onbeforesubmit).

For a solution, in the onclick event of the button (change to input type=button) you could try adding the values you need to a querystring and try:

opener.location=opener.location+&quot;?&quot;+myquerystringvals

or something like that...sorry I'm not much of a Netscrape guy jared@aauser.com
 
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When you say &quot;submit back to the parent&quot;, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? I don't think you can submit a form to an opened HTML page. Perhaps what you should do is take the values of the checkboxes, put them into an array, and then pass that to a function in the parent window.

onsubmit=&quot;{
array = (forms[1].tax_parcels,forms[1].buildings...);
opener.function(array);
window.close();
}&quot;
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.
 
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