child window submits a form in parent window

[richardko]

Hi,
I need to submit a form in parent window through a child window. I have a fair idea of how this is done except - i have three buttons in my parent window that can submit the same form. When submitted I check which button was pressed and perform various functions accordingly. When I am submitting the form in parent through child is it possible to specify how the form should be processed. example.
<parent window>
<form name="test" action="SELF" method="POST">
<input type="submit" name="exchange" value="exchange">
<input type="submit" name="replace" value="replace">
<input type="button" name="original" onClick="openChildWindow()">
</form>
</parent window>

<child window>
<input type="text" name="send_to_parent">
<input type="submit" name="child_submit" onClick="sendtoparent()">
</child window>

In the "child window" I want to submit the form in the parent window as if the "original" button was pressed. Is this possible?
thanks

 

[cLFlaVA]

well in this case you'd just want to call the openChildWindow() function? then you can just do this in your child window:

<input type="[red]button[/red]" name="child_submit" onClick="[red]opener.openChildWindow()[/red]">

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[richardko]

I tried calling "opener.openChildWindow()" from the child window but it doesnt work. Looks like a recursive function isnt though - because the openChildWindow() is called from the parent too.
if I execute a function like this in a child window:

opener.document.test.submit()

is it possible to specify the button like this:

opener.document.test.submit("original") ? Or could I call a function in the parent window that can execute this?
thanks