Targets: sending the postdata from an iframe to the parent

[ahmedtheking]

I haven't played with frames in ages, but how can I tell a form within an iframe to send the postdata to the parent (?) document? I tried setting target as _parent, but it didn't work, any ideas?

[cmarshall]

I'll bet it is best handled using JavaScript DOM messaging. I don't have time to mess with it, but I'll lay odds that's the most effective way.

[ahmedtheking]

Nah I figured out that it was _top. So I wonder what _parent means? I assume it means "the top of this file" where _top means "the top frame"?

[cmarshall]

Be careful. "_top" refers to the tippy-top frame. If the parent frame is contained within another frame, I don't think it will be _top anymore (or at least that's the way it works with regular frames).