Thanks Michael and William for the answers, I'll try

what you say.



What I am doing is displaying a list of clients

retrieved from a database, what I am really interested

in retreiving is the ID of the client.  Each client on

the list has a hidden value next to it, which has it's

ID number.



So, am I right if I say that I can write from one

hidden value on the new window to another hidden value

on the original window?



I am not sure if a hidden box has a .innerText

property



thanks again



Chris C.





--- William Milne <wmilne01@e...> wrote:

> Chris

> To answer your question, you could use the document

> object model 'opener'

> property with some javascript e.g. at the end of

> your pop-up window have

> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>

> /* Now paint the text on the main form and close

> this window */

> opener.document.all.MainFormControl.innerText 

> document.all.listControl.value;

> self.close();

> </SCRIPT> 

> 

> MainFormControl and listControl are element id's

> Hope this helps

> 

> William Milne

>

The problem with innerText is that it's only good for IE not Netscape.  If

you don't care about browser compatiblity, then use the Modal Browser

Windows for IE 4.  Very usefull feature!  Check this link.



    http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q221/5/90.ASP



----- Original Message -----

From: "Christian Cruz" <chris_cruz1@y...>

To: "ASP components" <asp_components@p...>

Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:36 AM

Subject: [asp_components] opening a window and retreiving info





> Thanks Michael and William for the answers, I'll try

> what you say.

>

> What I am doing is displaying a list of clients

> retrieved from a database, what I am really interested

> in retreiving is the ID of the client.  Each client on

> the list has a hidden value next to it, which has it's

> ID number.

>

> So, am I right if I say that I can write from one

> hidden value on the new window to another hidden value

> on the original window?

>

> I am not sure if a hidden box has a .innerText

> property

>

> thanks again

>

> Chris C.

>

>

> --- William Milne <wmilne01@e...> wrote:

> > Chris

> > To answer your question, you could use the document

> > object model 'opener'

> > property with some javascript e.g. at the end of

> > your pop-up window have

> > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>

> > /* Now paint the text on the main form and close

> > this window */

> > opener.document.all.MainFormControl.innerText 

> > document.all.listControl.value;

> > self.close();

> > </SCRIPT>

> >

> > MainFormControl and listControl are element id's

> > Hope this helps

> >

> > William Milne

> >

>

>

>

>