post to an already open window

[john8675309]

I have a page that has a button and when you press the button it loads a Java window. How can I make it so that when I check a name on the page the popsup and then press submit it will update the already open window?

John

[sarahk]

Assuming the popup is feeding back to the window that opened it it can use the following:

function makeAreaChoice(f,suburb)
{
  window.opener.MainForm.elements[f].value = suburb;
  window.opener.MainForm.noop.value='';
  window.opener.MainForm.submit();
  window.close();

  return false;
}

This was taken from some work I'm doing at the moment using java and other goodies but the strategy willl work regardless of the serverside technology - because this is clientside stuff!

[mmilano]

when you open the window, .. name it.

<a href="somepage.html" target="myname">

then when you want to reload info into that page.. setup your form like this:

<form method=post action="somepage.html" target="myname">

add your javascript and it still should work fine.

[john8675309]

With this mainform.opener thing I just want to submit the open window to change the form that was already open before the popup window like

Mainform<---------
| |
| |
Popup window----

[sarahk]

Yep, you will get that with the javascript window.opener and the original page won't need to be refreshed. In this example the text box is part of a form (which is the normal scenario) - do you have something different?

[john8675309]

here is what I have. I am bulding an address book for an e-mail program. You go and click on address book and it pulls up a javascript page and then it pulls out of mysql database Names and emails then it runs them through an array with a check box on the end when the user presses submit I want the text box in the to: field to reflect thechoices in the address book page.

John