JavaScript - Call Parent Window Function From Child Window
I have created and opened a child window called "checkwin" and have written some data to it. If the data is valid, I want the user to click on the 'CONFIRM' button on the child window, at which time I want the "submit()" function for the form on the parent window to be executed. If the data is invalid the user clicks on 'MODIFY' and I want focus to return to a field on the parent form. However, when I click on the "CONFIRM" or "MODIFY" buttons on the child window, nothing happens. Here is the code:
Code: checkwin.document.write("</td></tr><tr><td align='right'><input type='button' value='CONFIRM' onclick='opener.document.personnel_form.submit()'></td><td></td><td><input type='button' value='MODIFY' onclick='opener.document.personnel_form.first_name.focus()'></td></tr></table>") Similar TutorialsAfter following the instructions from the answer below: http://bytes.com/topic/javascript/an...arent-document I was able to have the child window perform the function defined in the parent window. The function was to only have an alert window pop up as the child page was loading. I easily modified this to my intention which was to have a parent function performed when the child window was clicked. Using the body tag: Code: <body onclick="parent.FUNCTION NAME HERE()"> I first change the method in which the function would be triggered, all went well there. then I tried to change which function would be triggered. (Basically use the function I wanted to happen on click of the child window rather then the function from the test). Once I did this switch, nothing happens. The site this is being used on is: http://tylerpanesar.ca/ What I want is when the menu bar is open in the parent window, the user chooses a link and the menu closes and goes to that link in the child window. This already works. However if the user opens the menu bar and then changes there mind and continues with the page the are currently on (clicks any content in the child window), the menu stays open. Currently the menu "hides" only when you choose one of the menu items, but it does not "hide" when you CLICK on child document. If you could figure out how to get it to "hide" on a "mouse out" that would be the better option. I attempted this method however i could only get it to "toggle" the menu on "mouse out". This method does however create an annoying flicker when you hover over the menu items (as it is toggling the open menu command I guess). If I had it "hide" the menu on "mouse out" it would "hide" as soon as you moved off of the main button. The viewer doesn't even have a chance to click a link. or at least that is what happens when I did it. You may have a better method to achieve this. The script that tells it to hide on click is within a jQuery function: Code: menua .click( function(){ menu.hide(); the code I used for the mouseout toggle was: Code: menu .mouseout( function(){ menu.toggle(); Here is the script that I am currently using for the menu to open and the "click" hide feature. This menu feature comes from the following help: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1740-Bu...-FaceBook-.htm Code: <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function( $ ){ var menuRoot = $( "#menu-root" ); var menu = $( "#menu" ); var menua = $( "#menu a" ); // Hook up menu root click event. menuRoot .attr( "href", "javascript:void( 0 )" ) .click( function(){ // Toggle the menu display. menu.toggle(); // Blur the link to remove focus. menuRoot.blur(); // Cancel event (and its bubbling). return( false ); } ) ; menua .click( function(){ // Toggle the menu display. menu.hide(); } ) ; // Hook up a click handler on the document so that // we can hide the menu if it is not the target of // the mouse click. $( document ).click( function( event ){ // Check to see if this came from the menu. if ( menu.is( ":visible" ) && !$( event.target ).closest( "#menu" ).size() ){ // The click came outside the menu, so // close the menu. menu.hide(); } } ); }); </script> I've tried adding the click to "hide" menu feature to the child document but there is now menu in that document for it to "hide". What I was trying to was have the child document execute a function from the parent document and have that function executed IN the parent document. I've tried the technique from the link in my very first post but I believe it only calls the function from the parent and executes it IN the child. Which does not work for me as the menu is not in the child. There should be a way to make the child execute a function FOR the parent. I apologize for this very wordy post, but I am extremely frustrated with this now as I have been trying to get this to work for a few weeks now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Tyler i have this code i need to close the parent.html window when the child window opened, i need the code for that working well in IE and Firefox Parent.html <HTML> <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> function sendTo() { window.open('child.html','_blank','resizable=yes,width='+(screen.width-500)+',height='+(screen.height-500)+''); } </SCRIPT> <BODY > <form name="form"> <input type="text" value="" name="text1" id="pdetails1"> <input type="text" value="" name="text1" id="pdetails2"> </br> <input type="submit" value="submit" onClick="sendTo()"> </BODY> </HTML> child.html <html> <body> <form> <input type=text name="text5" value=""> <input type=submit name="submit"value="submit"> </form> </body> </html> Hi All, I need to show/focus the parent window which is in back when click a link from child window in Chrome.This problem is in Chrome browser only. We have used the below code self.blur(); Window.opener.focus(); But this is not working in Google Chrome. Please suggest me some workaround to achieve this. Thanks in Advance Reply With Quote 12-19-2014, 09:26 PM #2 Old Pedant View Profile View Forum Posts Supreme Master coder! Join Date Feb 2009 Posts 28,311 Thanks 82 Thanked 4,754 Times in 4,716 Posts Window is not defined. window is. JavaScript (and the DOM) is case sensitive. You must pay attention to upper/lower case spelling, carefully. By the way, you shouldn't need the blur() call. If you focus on some window (any window) then any other focus should be lost. Hi, I have parent page with 10 child window and i want to close all child window when click on close session button on parent but first i need to check whether any child window open or not after that action should be done for close the child window. Hi, I am creating a new child air window called "test.html" as follow. How can I call a javascript function in parent window from child window? function createMyWindow() { var options = new air.NativeWindowInitOptions(); options.type = air.NativeWindowType.LIGHTWEIGHT; options.systemChrome = air.NativeWindowSystemChrome.NONE; options.transparent = true; mywindow = air.HTMLLoader.createRootWindow(false, options, false); mywindow.load(new air.URLRequest("test.html")); .... } Thanks, ASM For a parent window opened a child window, how can the parnet window be notified when the child window is closed or terminated? Thank you. Hey, I'm looking for a way to get a variable from a parent window in a child window. I'm aware that you can write the variable to a hidden field and then get the field's value in the child window, but I'm looking for a cleaner (all JS preferable) way of doing this. Something like this, but I believe this is an out-dated solution: Code: var str = window.opener.str; alert(str); Any solutions? Hi all can someone guide me (total JS newbie) on this presumably pretty easy task? I have a "parent" page with some text inputs in it (a form). This is what I am after: -when the user clicks a link it pops open a new window via JS - "child" (this is working). -in the "child" window there are also some text inputs (another form) (done). -when the user changes the value for 'testChild_textInput_4' in the child window, then I want it to automatically set this same value, to effectively overwrite, what is currently in 'testParent_textInput_2' in the parent window. Presumably this involves an onChange event, but it is also OK with me if the needful (the text input's value in the parent window being overwritten) happens upon the child window's form submit. If anyone can show me either trick, I would be thrilled! I set up a test page to make this all easy to talk about: http://www.yellow-turtle.com/testDumpMe_parent.html Please let me know! Thanks! -John I am trying to pop up a window and then do stuff(set flags) when the content of the new window is done loading. For this I am trying to detect the window.onload of the pop-up child window but so far I am unsuccessful. I believe my problem is that the URL of child window is on different domain, than the one of the opener(parent) so that the window.onload is not being called. Thought this may change, at the moment I do not have access to the code for the page I'm opening up in the pop-up. Im pretty new to web development. Any help is appreciated. Heres my js code Code: //globals var popupHandle = null; var openingWindow = false; function popWindow(URL){ var windowId="sameid"; if (openingWindow == true) { alert("Please wait, content is still loading") return; } if ((popupHandle == null || popupHandle.closed)){ //is first time run or window was closed openingWindow = true; popupHandle = window.open(URL, '" + windowId + "', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=900,height=500'); popupHandle.onload = function(){ //this is the code that never executes even if I all I put in here is simple alerting openingWindow = false; windowHandle.focus(); }; } else{// window still exists, reset attributes if (popupHandle != null) { popupHandle.location.href = URL; popupHandle.focus(); } } } Note: The whole reason why I am doing this is because if its the first time I am clicking on the button that will open this pop up window and I click it repeatedly very quickly, a new pop up is opened for each time I clicked eventhough the window.open is supposed to reuse the window if it has the same windowId. The first call to window.open takes long enough to not have a window handle ready and this allows other clicks to get through. I am currently creating which will allow the user to upload their own pictures. For this I am opening a new pop up window where the user can select the file they wish and then upload it (similar to ebay's picture upload). The pop up works fine and so does the file upload however I am having trouble transferring any data from the pop up window back to the parent window. I have been investigating the opener method but cannot seem to get it to work. Below is some simple code that I've been trying to get to work... Thanks for any help! first page... Code: <form name="loadpic" id="loadpic" action="createPost.php" method="post"> <br /> <br /> Testing transfer between pages... <input type="button" value="open pop up" onclick="window.open('popup.php','pop up box','width=400,height=200')" /> <br /> <br /> <span name="myspan" id="myspan">text here</span> </form> pop up page... Code: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Pop Up</title> <script language=javascript> function transfer(){ opener.document.loadpic.myspan.innerHTML = "working"; window.close(); } </script> </head> <body> This is the pop-up page! <input type="button" onclick="return transfer()" value="press me" /> </body> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++first window+++++++++++++++++++++++++ <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> var myWindow; function christDoes(){ mydWindow=open("second.html", "yes"); } </script> </head> <body><form name="myform" method=POST ACTION="sake.html" ><CENTER> <B>ENTER YOUR SUBJECT</B><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="subject"> <input type="button" name="ok" value="OK" onClick="christDoes()"> </form> </body> </html> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++parent window+++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++child window++++++++++++++++++++++ <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> function me(){ displayColor(); } function displayColor() { callWindow=window.open("third.html","fine"); } var m=0; var fSubject = self.opener.document.forms[0].subject.value; if(fSubject.length>0){ if(isNaN(fSubject)){fSubject="";} else{opener.alert("Please enter figure");} numSub=parseInt(fSubject); if(numSub==2){var strSub="ab";} self.document.write("<center>" +"ENTER SUBJECT HERE" +"</center><br>"); var mercy="<HTML><BODY>" mercy +="<FORM ACTION='save.html' METHOD='POST'>" mercy +="<CENTER>" sub=new Array(strSub.length); for(var i=0; i<sub.length; i++){ m++; mercy +=m +"<input type='text' name='sub[i].toLowerCase()'>" +"<BR>"; opener.alert("You have entered" +m +"subjects"); } } mercy +="</CENTER></FORM></BODY></HTML><BR></BR>"; self.document.write(mercy +"<BR>"); self.document.bgColor="pink"; self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT'>" +"<center>"); } </script> </head> <body onload='me()'> </body> </html> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++child window++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++new window+++++++++++++++++++++ <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> function help(){ self.document.write("this is me") self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT'>" +"<center>"); } </script> </head> <body onLoad="help"> </body> </html> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++new window+++++++++++++++++++++ Can somebody help me with the code to make this button work? In the parent window when 2 is input in the textbox and 'OK' button clicked, the second window opens with 2 textbox and 'SUBMIT' button. If 'SUBMIT' button is clicked in the child window i want it to open the new window. Please help me out. Thanks. God bless in Jesus name. +++++++++++++++++++first window+++++++++++++++++++++++++ <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> var myWindow; function christDoes(){ mydWindow=open("second.html", "yes"); } </script> </head> <body><form name="myform" method=POST ACTION="sake.html" ><CENTER> <B>ENTER YOUR SUBJECT</B><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="subject"> <input type="button" name="ok" value="OK" onClick="christDoes()"> </form> </body> </html> +++++++++++++++++++first window+++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++second window++++++++++++++++++++++ <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> function me(){ displayColor(); } function displayColor() { callWindow=window.open("third.html","fine"); } var m=0; var fSubject = self.opener.document.forms[0].subject.value; if(fSubject.length>0){ if(isNaN(fSubject)){fSubject="";} else{opener.alert("Please enter figure");} numSub=parseInt(fSubject); if(numSub==2){var strSub="ab";} self.document.write("<center>" +"ENTER SUBJECT HERE" +"</center><br>"); var mercy="<HTML><BODY>" mercy +="<FORM ACTION='save.html' METHOD='POST'>" mercy +="<CENTER>" sub=new Array(strSub.length); for(var i=0; i<sub.length; i++){ m++; mercy +=m +"<input type='text' name='sub[i].toLowerCase()'>" +"<BR>"; opener.alert("You have entered" +m +"subjects"); } } mercy +="</CENTER></FORM></BODY></HTML><BR></BR>"; self.document.write(mercy +"<BR>"); self.document.bgColor="pink"; self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT' onClick='window.open('third.html', '')'>" +"<center>"); } </script> </head> <body onload='me()'> </body> </html> ++++++++++++++++++++++second window++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++third window+++++++++++++++++++++ <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> function help(){ self.document.write("this is me") self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT'>" +"<center>"); } </script> </head> <body onLoad="help"> </body> </html> ++++++++++++++++++++++third window+++++++++++++++++++++ Can somebody help me with the code to make this button work? In the parent window when 2 is input in the text box and 'OK' button clicked, the second window opens with 2 text box and 'SUBMIT' button. If 'SUBMIT' button is clicked in the child window i want it to open the third window. Please help me out. Thanks. God bless in Jesus name. *ADDED* Though i am advised to add 'window .open' as one of the arguments to the OK button which i did yet it doesn't work somebody please help me out! I am using Mozilla 3.6 could this mean that it doesn't support this? In my main window, I create a popup window. Is there a way to bring the main window back to the foreground (make the main window the focus window again) from the popup window using JS? Like from a link or a button? Thanks Hello all, and thank you for your coments, I want to preserve a 16/9 aspect ratio to the window after any resize, making the width a function of the height. As I have a window.resizeTo() inside the window.onresize event function, the infinite loop is served. How may I quit it? Code: <html><head><title>Title</title><script languaje="javascript"> const c_ra=16/9; window.onresize = function WindowReSize() { var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0; if( typeof( window.innerWidth ) == 'number' ) { //Non-IE // myWidth = window.innerWidth; myHeight = window.innerHeight; } else if( document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight ) ) { //IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode' // myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth; myHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight; } myWidth = Math.floor(myHeight*c_ra); window.resizeTo(myWidth,myHeight); // ** CAUTION resize event in a onresize event handler ! }; </script></head><body><p>Hello World</p></body></html> Hey there everybody! I'm learning javascript, and I am having trouble figuring out how to do this. Maybe you guys can help me out. What I need is for my main page to have a text field. Above the text field there should be a set of images for bold, italics, underline, etc; when you click on them it inserts the html code <b></b> at the cursor point. Next I want there to be a link, that when clicked will open a popup box with smileys. When you click on one of the smiley images it should insert the smiley code (example :smile: ) into the parent window text field. And would it be possible to make that work with pages of emotes? Or perhaps a second popup window? I hope I explained that without it sounding confusing. I would really appreciate any help. Here is my basic code, it does not include a popup code however. Code: <html> <script type="text/javascript"> function insert(el,ins) { window.lstText={}; if (el.setSelectionRange){ el.value = el.value.substring(0,el.selectionStart) + ins + el.value.substring(el.selectionStart,el.selectionEnd) + el.value.substring(el.selectionEnd,el.value.length); } else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) { el.focus(); var range = document.selection.createRange(); range.text = ins + range.text; } } </script> <body> <form> <textarea rows="20" cols="100" name="txt1" onfocus="window.lstText=this;"> This is sample text, click anywhere in here then choose on of the buttons above to see text inserted. </textarea><br /><br /> <img src="http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss141/vwcorrado/Docs_smiley.jpg" onclick="insert(window.lstText,'hello')"> <input type="button" value="hi" onclick="insert(window.lstText,'hi')"> <br /> </form> </body> </html> i had one window with few controls and two buttons, one button click i am opening another small window by using window.open, in this window i had one close button. on click of close button what i want is i want to click the second button which exists in the parent window, and i want to close the chield window. for that i am coding window.opener.document.getElementById('pbGo').click(); self.close(); but i am getting error, in the second button i put alert message for testing purpose. where i am doing wrong i dont know. Any help please. thanks Hi, I'm kinda hoping this is possible but haven't found any reference to it... I have a parent page that opens a popup on click that launches a sidebar navigation on the right of the screen and resizes the parent page. What I am wanting to do is create a second popup (approx 250px high) that opens below the navigation (which is only around 600px high) but I have noticed that even when you have no status bar in the popup windows, they can still end up overlapping because of additional tools or plugins that the viewer has in their browser. Is there any way to get the popups to butt up against each other instead of overlapping? More like a relative popup? Any assistance would be appreciated. :-) var selwindow = window.open('child1.html','_blank','resizable=yes,width='+(screen.width-500)+',height='+(screen.height-500)+''); selwindow.document.selectform.childText.value=document.getElementById('pdetails1').value; I am using this code to assign a value for textbox in the child window. It works well in Internet Explorer, but it shows an error when run in Firefox. It shows: selwindow.document.selectform is undefined. Here, "childText" is the current window textbox id, "pdetails1" is the child window text box id,"select form" is child window form id Hi all, I have a HTML and I am opening another link in a separate window using window.open() . The child window is something like 'http://yahoo.com' which is out side html. I need to refresh the parent window when the child window is closed. any idea? Thanks, Mahesh I have a web page which lists and displays all the characters for which a Named Entity code exists, with coding details etc.. Some of these characters are quite obscure and the reader will only be able to see them if they have a suitable Unicode font on their own PC/browser. If not, they will just see placeholder squares. For these obscure characters, I've set up a popup window. Click on a placeholder square and a small window appears which shows a .gif of what the character should look like, and a label saying what it's called. If the user closes the window after viewing, there's no problem. The difficulty comes in if somebody wants to click on a succession of placeholders and view a succession of character .gifs, and meanwhile the initial child window has slipped to the back of the stack and is behind the webpage instead of in front. In IE, Netscape and Safari, it's easy - I just use .focus to bring the child window to the fore. In Chrome, which doesn't recognise the .focus command, I close the child window and re-open it. [There's code further up the document which identifies the browser.] However, neither .focus nor closing and re-opening the window works with Opera, which turns the child window into a tab rather than a separate window, and then shoves that tab to the back. Anybody know how I can get Opera to either move the focus to the child-tab on command, or close it on command so it can be re-opened? This is the code that generates the child window: Code: function charDisplayer() { if (isIEorInnerGroup == "Yes") {codeWidth = windowWidth*.171, codeHeight = windowWidth*.239, codeInset = windowWidth*.041} else {adjust(200), codeWidth = adjust_by, adjust(280), codeHeight = adjust_by, adjust(48), codeInset = adjust_by} if (isChrome == "Yes") { if (window.generator) { window.generator.close(); window.generator= null; } } window.generator=window.open('', 'charwindow', 'height='+codeHeight+', width='+codeWidth+', left='+codeInset+', top='+codeInset*2+', scrollbars=yes'); window.generator.document.write('<html><head><title>Character sample</title>'); window.generator.document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="'+styleType+'">'); window.generator.document.write('</head><body>'); window.generator.document.write('<p style="text-align: center;"><div class=centred><table class=centred><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div class=centred><img src="artwork/font_characters/'+charID+'.gif" border=3 alt="'+charName+'" align=bottom border=0 width='+charWidth+'></div>'+charName+'</td></tr></table></div>'); window.generator.document.write('<hr /><a href="javascript:self.close()">Close</a> the popup if you have finished viewing characters.</p>'); window.generator.document.write('</body></html>'); window.generator.document.close(); if (window.focus) {window.generator.focus()} } Ignore the line which begins if (isIEorInnerGroup == "Yes") - this is part of a setup which resizes all art, tables etc to maintain a constant size across all browsers and screen resolutions. "stylesheet" is passed as a variable because I have two different stylesheets on the go, to accommodate the fact that Netscape handles text-size differently from the other browsers. There's a function elsewhere which sets the value of stylesheet according to whether the browser is Netscape or not, and whether the platform is a Mac or not. "charID" is a variable which identifies the code name of the character (taken from the Named Entity code) and looks it up under that name in a list of .gifs. "charName" is a variable which passes a text-string saying what the character is called, e.g. "Not a subset of". There is an "isOpera" variable which can be used to start a specific action if the browser is Opera. |