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Suggestions to make this work in FF? 1
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parent refers mainly to frames - window.opener should work fine. This worked fine for me in both IE7 and FF2, click the button in test.html to open test2.html and it will alert the results of the hidden value in test.html:
-kaht
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Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>title test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" value="open new window" onclick="window.open('test2.html')" />
<input type="hidden" value="I'm a hidden value in the opener" id="test" />
</body>
</html>
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>title test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function () {
alert(window.opener.document.getElementById("test").value);
};
</script>
<style type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>-kaht
Looking for a puppy? [small](Silky Terriers are hypoallergenic dogs that make great indoor pets due to their lack of shedding and small size)[/small]
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[purple]You're welcome[/purple]
-kaht
Looking for a puppy? [small](Silky Terriers are hypoallergenic dogs that make great indoor pets due to their lack of shedding and small size)[/small]
-kaht
Looking for a puppy? [small](Silky Terriers are hypoallergenic dogs that make great indoor pets due to their lack of shedding and small size)[/small]
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