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I would appreciate any help on this problem. I have a JavaScript that opens a window and initializes the value of a textarea element. It works in IE6 but does not work in NS 6.1. The script is a text book variety but I must be doing something wrong or not compatible with NS, because when I open the page in NS the new window opens without any value in the textarea element. It seems that this statement:
<<<<<<< snip >>>>>>>>
helpWindow.document.inputForm.exhibit.value = field.value;
<<<<< snip >>>>>>>
doesn't work. The following is more of the script. What am I doing wrong can someone please help?
var helpWindow = 0;
function openWindow(url,title, field )
{
if(helpWindow){
…
}else{
helpWindow = window.open(url, 'title', 'scrollbars,resizable,width=350,height=300');
}
helpWindow.document.inputForm.exhibit.value = field.value;
helpWindow.focus();
alert ("Done ");
}
thanks in advance
Give the element an ID, and use something like this:
if(document.getElementById) {
// For newer browsers...
document.getElementById('the_ID').value = "blah";
}
else if (document.all) {
// For older IE...
document.all['the_ID'].value = "blah";
}
NS 6.1 still does not work. I'm wondering if the problem is with textarea element. I bet if this field was not textarea it would work, but then it would not suite my purpose.
Did you change the field.value part too, which assigns the value to the textarea?
<input type="hidden" name=exhibit value='#include ....'>
The value is large piece of text which I'm trying to transfer to the textarea element on a second window so that the user can edit it.
The following is the call that is supposed to open the second window and initialize it.
<input type=radio name=exh_type value=”EMBEDDED “ checked onclick='JavaScript: openWindow("html/getExhibit.htm", "Supplemental Information",input.exhibit);'>
This is really puzzling to me but I'll keep probing it and crossing my fingers that something will fix it.
Thanks
<HTML>
<script>
var helpWindow = 0;
var isWindowLoaded = 0;
var string ="";
function openWindow(url,title, field)
{
if(helpWindow){
x=0;
}else{
helpWindow = window.open(url, 'title', 'scrollbars,resizable,width=350,height=300');
}
string=field.value +"";
helpWindow.focus();
isWindowLoaded = setTimeout('checkWindowLoaded()', 250);
}
function checkWindowLoaded()
{
isWindowLoaded=clearInterval();
if (typeof(helpWindow.document.inputForm)!="undefined")
{
helpWindow.document.inputForm.exhibit.value = string;
}
else
{
isWindowLoaded = setTimeout('checkWindowLoaded()', 250);
}
}
</script>
<FORM name=input>
<input type="hidden" name=exhibit value='TEST TEXT'>
<input type=radio name=exh_type value=”EMBEDDED“ checked onclick='JavaScript: openWindow("open.htm", "Supplemental Information",input.exhibit);'>
</form>
</HTML>
After getting a working solution, I think it best not to use it. I would post the contents of the element to the new window and use Perl, instead of JavaScript, to parse the contents.
-Mark
After reading your suggestions and especially Mark’s remark at the end, I have to conclude that there is no way to safely initialize a form element through JavaScript that will work for NN. I’m going to have to do it through server side programming.
Thanks again for all your help.
