Access parent document from IE modal dialog? 1

[xpblueScreenOfDeath]

In IE, is it possible to access a form element of a parent winodw from a modal dialog?

I tried:

<code>
document.parent.document.getElementById(...)
document.opener.document.getElementById(..l)
</code>

 

[jemminger]

i believe you'd have to pass in a reference to it, e.g.

var obj = new Object();
obj.parent = window;
vReturnValue = window.showModalDialog(sURL , obj);

and it would be accessible via the dialogArguments object of the modal window:

var parent = window.dialogArguments.parent;

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[tsdragon]

The document object has neither an opener property nor a parent property. Those properties belong to the window object. Try:

window.opener.document.getElementById(...)
window.parent.document.getElementById)...)

Tracy Dryden

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[adam0101]

showModalDialog doesn't have an opener or parent. Jeff is right, you can pass any object you want in the second argument, like one that has a property set to a reference of the window object (like in Jeff's example) or you could pass the window object itself if you wanted.

window.showModalDialog(sURL , [b]window[/b]);

var opener = window.dialogArguments;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...r/dhtml/reference/methods/showmodaldialog.asp

Adam