Add parent form action from child

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February 15th, 2013, 07:56 AM

numele

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Other - Add parent form action from child

I am not the greatest on javascript and was hoping someone could give me some help. I am trying to pass to the parent form action field a value from the child. The child is an iframe and they are both in the same domain.

The line I have in the child now which is not working is:

Code:

window.parent.document.forms['stopForm'].action = "command_stop_15264.cgi";

I have also tried:

Code:

window.parent.document.forms['stopForm'].form.action = "command_stop_15264.cgi";
window.parent.document.forms['stopForm'].form.action.value = "command_stop_15264.cgi";

My parent page form is pretty simply:

Code:

<form method="POST" name="stopForm" id="stopForm" target="stopinfo"></form>

Also tried:

Code:

<form method="POST" action="" name="stopForm" id="stopForm" target="stopinfo"></form>

February 15th, 2013, 09:27 PM

web_loone08

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Do a online search for "same domain iframe communication"; that should give you some good examples of how this is done, but if your testing locally; your going to run into security errors (just so you know in advance).

February 16th, 2013, 09:54 AM

numele

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I figured out a way, from the child I send a value to a hidden input on the parent. Worked like a charm.

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