I am having problems creating a progress bar on my website and was wondering if it is possible to open a new window and control the contents in that window from a parent window. For example...

When a user clicks a link on my page, I want that link to open a new browser window that says "Processing Request...". In the meantime I want the original window to start loading a new page. When the new page finishes loading I would like for it to close the "Processing Request..." page, which was acting somewhat like a progress bar.

What would really be nice is if I could change the messages in the "Processing Request..." page to say different things as the parent window gets closer to loading.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Jake

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Jake

You could give the link an onClick handler:

<a href="#" onClick="load()">Your link</a>

and then add script to the page with the link:

<script language="javascript">
function load()
{
 var newwin = window.open("the_processing_request_page.htm","new win","//window attributes...");
 window.location = "the_new_page.htm";
}

Give the new page (the one you have been waiting for to load) this code:

<script language="javascript">
var newwin = window.open("the_processing_request_page.htm","new win","//the same window attributes...");
newwin.window.close();
</script>

The new page should still recognize the popup and close it.

Sorry, I don't know how to make different messages closer to when the page is finished loading.

Hope it helps!