Dear Bill,

I am trying to do the same thing?  did you get it to work?  I am also 
using Cold Fusion.  Could you please share your results with me?

Thank you!
Sincerely,
Trigger

> Hi,
> 
> I've got a data entry form on a web page which requires the user to enter
> various codes.  Some users won't be familiar with the codes so I pop-up
> another page with a list of the codes/descriptions in a table.  When the
> user clicks on the description, the code & description are writen back to
> the form.  The 'code' ends up in the appropriate input field while the
> description ends up next to it (in a table cell with an id tag). 
> [Remember this is being executed in the pop-up window so document.opener
> is needed to reference the parent window].
> 
> In IE this is working fine....  with NetScape the 'code' is OK but the
> description doesn't make it...  Of course, Netscapes document model isn't
> the same as IE so that's where the problem is....  Here's the code I've
> got so far (ignore the cfoutputs - this is being generated in cold
> fusion):
> 
> // copy the code over to the form field
> window.opener.document.<cfoutput>#attributes.field#</cfoutput>.value = 
selection;
> 
> // copy the description to the next table cell
>         
> if (window.opener.document.all) 
>    // internet explorer
>           
window.opener.document.<cfoutput>#attributes.desc#</cfoutput>.innerText 
> description;
> else if (window.opener.document.layers) 
>    {
>    // Netscape Navigator  - this bit doesn't work!
>    window.opener.document.layers['DistTypeDesc'].document.open();
>   
> window.opener.document.layers['DistTypeDesc'].document.write('Testing');
>    window.opener.document.layers['DistTypeDesc'].document.close();
>   
> 
window.opener.document.layers.'DistTypeDesc'].document.visibility='visible'
;
> 
>    } 
> 
> Here's a snippet from the page where the data is being sent...
> 
> 								
	<td>
> 									
	<input type="text" name="DistTypeCode" 
value="<cfoutput>#HTMLEditFormat(attributes.DistTypeCode)#</cfoutput>" 
size="20"
> maxlength="4" />
>         </td>
> 	<td>
> 	<a href="<cfoutput>#request.home#</cfoutput>ref/index.cfm?
fuseaction=PopUpRefCodes&amp;Command=LIST&amp;TableID=5&amp;field=FilterFor
m.DistTypeCode&amp;Title=District+Type&amp;Desc=all.DistTypeDesc"
> target='popup' onclick="result 
> window.open('','popup','height=450,width=300,scrollbars=no');
> result.focus(); "><img 
src="<cfoutput>#request.image#</cfoutput>magnif4.gif" width="21" 
height="21"
> border="0" alt="Select list to filter on." /></a>
> 	</td>
> 	<td id="DistTypeDesc" 
class="iwuddesc"><cfoutput>#DistTypeDesc#</cfoutput>&nbsp;</td>
> 
> 
> 
> Suggestions welcome! Thanks!