page refresh?

WhiteTiger · May 17, 2002

How can I force a page to change after an item has changed?
Right now I'm working with javascript, (I know...someones gonna yell for me to go to the javascript forum) but I can't get it to work...

What I'm trying to do is create a select box, and onchange it finds the URL of the item selected, and opens a popup, then refreshes the page (self refresh)...that way it resets the select boxes and I dont have to do a ton of coding to reset the select boxes and getting an about:blank when the value is empty for the first selection (title) Regards,
Anthny

ToddWW · May 17, 2002

Two Choices

#1: In the main page code your onChange function something like this.

Code:

window.open(etc....); self.reload();

You can place a true parameter in the reload method to ignore cache settings on the computer.

Code:

self.reload(true)

This method will open the popup window and reload the main page simultaneously. To do it sequentially, place an onLoad event handler in your popup windows like this.

Code:

<script language="JavaScript"> function reloadMain() { self.opener.reload(); } </script> <body onLoad="reloadMain();"

This will reload the main page AFTER the popup has finished loading.

ToddWW

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page refresh?

WhiteTiger

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