How to get and return results from pop-up window?

[twidlar]

Hello. This is my first message here. I am an experienced programmer, Pascal, C, C++. Recently I've written a small Java app, quite a few PHP pages and a little Javascript code.

I know how to open up a new window in JS and fill it with HTML including images from the onload event in BODY. I'd like to have the user fill out a fieldd on a FORM and then pass that back to the main page as a value in an INPUT tag. How do I get the value from the user? I pass it back through return(), right?

Basically I am after an HTML-formatted prompt box.

Thanks.

 

[Kirsle]

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut105.shtml

This will get you started. This pops up a window where clicking links in the pop-up causes the main window to go to different pages. It could be modified to call a function in the main window and pass parameters to it.

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perl -e '$|=$i=1;print" oo\n<|>\n_|_";x:sleep$|;print"\b",$i++%2?"/":"_";goto x;'

 

[vacunita]

Since javascript is object oriented all you really need to do is reference the appropriate object.

So assuming you want to get the value from an input in your popup into another input in the parent page you would reference the object through its parent:

<script>
function sendvaluetoparent(){
opener.document.forms.[green]myform[/green].[blue]myinput[/blue].value=document.getElementById('[red]mypopupinput[/red]').value;


}
</script>
<input type="text" name="mypopupinput" id="[red]mypopupinput[/red]">
<input type="submit" name="send" value="Return Value" onClick="sendvaluetoparent();">

<form name="[green]myform[/green]" ... >
<input type=text name="[blue]myinput[/blue]">
...
</form>

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[yamyam]

Please help, I am in a similar position but in the example i would like to programatically pass the element that I want to populate. Eg I have a calendar that is called 3 time in the master form to update 3 different ids such as birth date, mother birthday etc.

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

Keyword : parameter.

Pass the [tt]id[/tt] of the element to update as parameter to the function.

Feherke.

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