Writing to frame document errors

[waytech2003]

I have a webpage that contain frames. Left sided (Frame1) has menu buttons, right side (Frame2) is where the action occurs.

I use Javascript functions that are stored in Frame1, to manipulate Frame2's content. Several of my functions involve writing messages to the right frame document.

Example:
top.Frame2.document.write("<p align='center'><b>Loading Billing Form. Please Wait.</b></p>");

This is working well except when I have previously loaded a jpeg picture into the Frame2, and then try to write() a message after a button is pressed.

IE6 works without any problems, but testing with Firefox3 I get a "Permission denied to get property Window.document" error on line 2 code snippet below
1 var z
2 z=top.Frame2.document;
3 z.open();
4 z.write("stuff");
5 z.close();

I have tried replacing Frame2 with a blank page, before writing, but I guess it does not get loaded fast enough.

As I said IE works, Firefox errors. Any ideas?

 

[BabyJeffy]

Tried testing in IE7 yet? Safari on the Mac?

...Any ideas?

Since you ask... I would suggest you look to using modern DOM methods to manipulate page content rather than document.write.

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[waytech2003]

Just tested in IE7 and works fine.