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

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!