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Old June 2nd, 2004, 02:48 PM
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This is the situation: I have a page with a form. In this page is an iframe. In this iframe is a frames page, and in one of the frames is a function that forces the form in the parent-est page to submit, but it doesn't work.

I am using IE6, and it pops up an error message oddly without the line, error number and description. Then it pops up another error box that says "an error has occured in this dialog: error 84, unspecified error."

Here is my code:
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HTML_to_export = doc.body.innerHTML;
parent.parent.document.open();
//this line causes it. without this line I get parent.parent is not an object
parent.parent.document.forms[0].newvalue.value = HTML_to_export;
parent.parent.document.forms[0].submit();
Has anyone else encountered this problem?

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Old June 2nd, 2004, 03:52 PM
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Basically you're saying that you have a nested frame many frames down. If you want the topmost frame, then the "top" property should do it.

top.document.forms[0].submit();

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Rich: same thing happens, replacing all parent.parent with top.

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Let me add some info....

These work:

alert(parent.parent.location);
alert(top.location);

None of these do:

document.forms['myform']....
document.forms[0]....
document.forms.myform....
document.myform....

They all return something like "document.forms[...] is null or not an object".

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FYI, I solved this problem.

I don't know what was wrong, but I used a workaround: I made a form in the window that contains the force submit function, and gave it the attribute target="_top". It all works now!

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Hi, I'd love to know more about how you resolved this issue as I am having the same one. I have a form with an iframe that contains another form. I need to be able to submit the top level form when a button is clicked (after the button has executed it's server side code). Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 
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Dear TammyWoods:
Have u ever check Target attribute on [u]Form</u>

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I tried using the target attribute, but what happened there was the form in the iframe popped up into a new page.... it didn't work... so I must be missing something here?

 
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NO u should use ur Frame name for Target.

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I set my target attribute to _top.

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