Popups, Frames and Arrggh!

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Can somebody guide me through popup windows and how a hyperlink in a popup window can alter the frame displayed in my main web page in the background please?

Specifically, I have a frames page that opens and an OnLoad event (from the main page in that frame) that triggers a popup window to inform visitors that a new message has been posted to the noticeboard area of the site. How do I create a hyperlink, in the popup window, that loads the noticeboard page in the frames page that the popup window was called from? Phew!

Any help always greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Ade

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If JavaScript code in Window1 pops open Window2, code in Window2 has (at least) two options for referring back to Window1.

(1) In Window2, the opener property points back to Window1 (version 3 browsers and higher):

self.opener.document.etc.;

(2) You can pass a reference to Window1 as your own property:

Window2 = window.open(etc.);
Window2.creator = self;

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or . . .
if window1 consits of frame1 and frame2,
and the pop up (window2) is loaded by window1’s frame1,
but you want to load something into frame2,
you can reference frame2 in the target parameter of your link.

the popup would contain a link like

I’m not sure how to phrase this, but the target parameter is obeyed whether it is a window, a frame within a window, or a frame within another window. Does that make sense?

This is a lot simpler than it sounds.

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Superb! What a simple solution! Works perfectly thanks. Interested to see what the JavaScript solutions being offered will do?

Thanks for your help.

Ade

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Heya Ade, I have exactly what you want but unfortunetly my DSL is down. Gimme a day and I’ll email you the code.
I have a page, two frames. A & B When you select something in A it opens in B. I also have a small pop up window. When you click in there, it opens something in B. Send me a priuvate with your email addy and i’ll send you the code. I’m at work and I don’t have it here.

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Thanks to you all – I have lots of options to try now.

Much appreciated.

Ade

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Ok this is in two parts

MY main page looks like this:

On B page, I have this line:

window.open (‘dale.html’, ‘newwindow’, config=’height=190,width=228, toolbar=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=no, resizable=no,location=no, directories=no, status=no’)

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oh wait one more, my pop-up page looks like this:

This is not an Ad.


Click here for the whole story.

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Got it thanks – works too!

Ade

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