Submitting forms from a different frame! 1

[cturland]

Hi all,

Ok let me try and explain my problem!! ...... I have a top menu bar in its own frame that has a save button on it. When this save button is clicked on I need it to save the data that is currently present in the main frame window. The main frame window has many different pages though.

Is it possible to envoke the submit button on another page through a javascript: onclick? And what would be the best way of recognising what page is currently being displayed in my main frame?!

Thanks,
Carl

 

[iza]

let's say the upper frame is named "banner" and the main one is named "main"

> Is it possible to envoke the submit button on another page through a javascript: onclick?
yes, just use :
top.main.the_name_of_the_form.submit()

> And what would be the best way of recognising what page is currently being displayed in my main frame?!
can you use some sort of cgi script ? if not, i don't see any obvious solution ... i've done this but in a weird way : every time i load a page in "main" i add an url parameter, this way i always know where i am but it's really inelegant, heavy, expensive ...
i hope someone else can help for this, if not let me know i'll try to help more

 

[jaredn]

As far as the first part of your statement, to access a form in another frame and submit it you can say:

parent.framename.formname.submit()

the second part of your question, I don't quite understand jared@aauser.com

 

[tanderso]

parent.framename.document.location will give you the url of the frame. And I think you can use parent.framename.forms[0].submit() to submit the first form on your page, no matter what page it is.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

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