Form2Popup

[ShMiL]

I need to submit a form so that the action page will open in a new page. I used: <form target="blank"....> but it's good enough...
Is there a way to submit a form to a popup? meaning: onsubmit a popup window will be opened and the action page in it will get the data through the post method.
Is it possible?

Thanks!!

[beetle]

Yup.

function createTarget( t )
{
window.open( 'about:blank', t, 'width=500, height=400 );
return true;
}

...

<form ... target="someTarget" onsubmit="return createTarget( this.target )" ... >
Or, whatever window options you'd like.

[ShMiL]

great idea!
Thanks

[ShMiL]

the form is in a <div> in page A, and let's call the popup: B.
Can I put a script in page B which will change the content of the <div> in page A?

Thanks...

[beetle]

yes

[ShMiL]

I know you'll be angry... :( but how can I refer to page A? I don't know it's "name"...

[beetle]

window.opener will give you a reference to the opening, er, window.

[ShMiL]

I read about it a little and tried to run this:
window.opener.document.bgColor = "#000000";
from the popup - but I get error that says: "Access denied" - any idea why?

Thanks

[beetle]

Uh, not right of the bat. I don't mess with opener stuff much. Are the two pages within the same domain?

[ShMiL]

you're either lucky or damn-experienced :)
two different domains... If I name the pages, will it work?

[beetle]

Nope. And, experienced would be the answer to your query :D

You cannot perform any cross-domain writing (and some reading) for security and integrity issues. The browser just won't allow it. Since setting the bgColor property is a write operation, you cannot do it.

[ShMiL]

let's say it's the same domain, but I don't want to use OPENER...
How can I refer to the window (I know it's name...) - I tried this:
window.main .document.bgColor = "#000000";
and it didn't work (main is the name of the window...)
Am I doing it right?

Thanks

[beetle]

Try just

windowName.document.etc

[kwhubby]

just a question... would a page have a window name if its not a popup thats window name was difined from one of the parameters in window.open?

[ShMiL]

Originally posted by kwhubby
just a question... would a page have a window name if its not a popup thats window name was difined from one of the parameters in window.open?

window.name = "main";

[ShMiL]

Originally posted by beetle
Try just

windowName.document.etc
I get this error:
windowName is undefined
:(

[ShMiL]

Maybe the process of the popup is the problem...
I pop up a window from page A and I call this popup B.
The address in the popup (B) is from another domain, which redirects to a page in the same domain of A.
From there, I try to change stuff at page A.

Is it ok?

[kwhubby]

window.name = "main";
oh..... cool... thanks :) ShMil. how simple
Ive never needed to name a window thats not a popup, (id just use opener to access it).

[glenngv]

Originally posted by ShMiL
Maybe the process of the popup is the problem...
I pop up a window from page A and I call this popup B.
The address in the popup (B) is from another domain, which redirects to a page in the same domain of A.
From there, I try to change stuff at page A.

Is it ok?

once the popup page is in the same domain as the opener, you can access stuff in opener. you have to use the opener property not the window name.

window.opener.document.bgColor="#000000";

[ShMiL]

Error:
"window.opener is null or not an object"

I can't get this work...

[glenngv]

is the popup in frames? if yes, use top.opener instead.

[ShMiL]

no frames...
This is the form in domain A:

<form target="submit2" method="post" name="mazkira" action="Domain B" onSubmit="return checkForm();">
<table>
<tr>
<td width=62>namr</td>
<td width=30></td>
<td><input type="text" class="teva2" name="fullname" maxlength="40" size="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>e-mail</td>
<td></td>
<td><input type="text" class="teva2" name="email" dir="ltr" maxlength="80" size="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>phone</td>
<td></td>
<td><input type="text" dir="ltr" class="teva2" name="phone_num" maxlength="20" size="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cell</td>
<td></td>
<td><input type="text" dir="ltr" class="teva2" name="cell_num" maxlength="20" size="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">comments<br><textarea class="teva2" name="comments" cols="40" rows="6" onKeyDown="textCounter(document.mazkira.comments,150);" onKeyUp="textCounter(document.mazkira.comments,150);"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit1" value=" send " class="button"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>


the function checkForm (onsubmit) checks validity and then:
popup('about:blank','submit2','yes','yes','yes','470','160');

After submiting, I get a new window with page (.asp - doing some dynamic stuff) from Domain B.
Then, the .asp redirects to a page in Domain A (original) and this is it's source:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1255">
<title>äåãòúê ðú÷áìä. úåãä.</title>
<meta name="Author" content="Shmulik Simchony">
<meta name="Keywords" content="">
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="">
</head>
<!--ff-->
<body style="background-color:#ABC6E5;direction:rtl;" onLoad="javascript:window.opener.bgColor='#000000';">
<table style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border:0px;width:100%;" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td style="padding:10px;text-align:center;font-family:Tahoma,Arial;font-size:11pt;" valign="middle">Success!</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>


And I get the error I told you. Maybe now it'll be easier to help...

[glenngv]

it should be:

window.opener.document.bgColor='#000000';

but as you said, window.opener is null.
are sure it is? try alerting it before setting the color.

[ShMiL]

I don't know if it works yet because I have a background-image in the main page... But I don't get any error which is good...

If I want to refresh the main page, Should I do it like that:
window.opener.refresh()? (I tried it and it didn't work...)


Thanks

[glenngv]

there is no refresh() method for any object. it should be reload():

window.opener.location.reload()

[ShMiL]

It's not working - no errors, but still not working.

Is the fact I'm using frames in the main page can cause it??
If it was the problem, I should have probably got the ACCESS DENIED error (the main page is a frameset from a totally different domain...)


Any idea?