[LON-CAPA-dev] javascript question?
Guy Albertelli II
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:56:08 -0500 (EST)
Hi Hon-Kie,
> I have a window opened by the parent window. On the new window I have a
> form and when I submit the form, the display should go back to the parent
> window. At the same time, I want to close the new window. The two lines of
> codes in javascript
>
> document.formname.submit(); //note the formname is targeted to the parent
> window
> self.close();
>
> seems to work with IE and mozilla. But it does not work with netscape. In
> netscape, it closes the new window and doesn't do anything, ie, it seems
> the new window is closed before the form is submitted.
>
> Any ideas how to make work on netscape?
Looks like lonparmset does this
the Store link causes the child to write it's values to the parent window, and
then calls a function that exists in the parent window that closes the
child window.
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guy@albertelli.com LON-CAPA Developer 0-7-7-4-