Passing form values from 1 frame to another.

edkeyte · January 21st, 2004, 12:05 PM

I have found out a way to pass forms from one frame to another but with the script I found, I can only pass one form field. I would like to pass 3 or more.

Here is a demo of what I mean:

http://www.planet-cyber.org/frame_pass_set/

As you can see by the demo, Only the email gets added to all field but I would like to add Email in the email field, Name in the name filed, and user name in the user name field of the form on the left, from the right.

joefawcett · January 21st, 2004, 12:41 PM

I would change the passText function to:

Code:

function passText(Name, Value)
{
  top.frames['right'].document.yourform[Name].value = Value;
}

then change your button to:

Code:

<INPUT onclick="parent.passAll(this.form);" type=button value=Add!>

and finally add the passAll function to the page with passText function:

Code:

function passAll(Form)
{
  passText("email", Form.user.value);
  passText("teacher", Form.user1.value);
  passText("user", Form.user2.value);
}

Note I renamed the textbox called 'name' to 'teacher'. This is because the expression 'yourform.name' is ambiguous, does it mean the name of the form or the element called 'name'? This can cause problems.

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Joe

edkeyte · January 21st, 2004, 01:02 PM

Thank you so much for that very fast reply Joe.

Best regards Edward.

al · February 2nd, 2004, 11:53 AM

is "top.frames['right'].document" be browser specific ?

joefawcett · February 2nd, 2004, 12:33 PM

i believe it's standard, isn't it working on your browser?
If not it could be because the document in quetion is not in the same domain, i.e. from the same server and usaing same protocol (both HTTP rather than one HTTP and the other HTTPS for example) as the frame where the code is. This would be a security violation so is not allowed.

Joe

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Joe