How to modify form vairable in parent form ?

[Jaheel22]

Form A is submitted to call Form B.
While being in Form B, how can i modify the form fields in the Form A ? Please note i'm not using pop-up windows.

Form A
<form action="FormB" method="post" name=formA>
<input type=text name=HisAge value=33>
<input type=submit value=sumit>

Form B
<form name=formb>
// javascript to change HisAge to 22.
</form>


Thanks very much

 

[DreXor]

parent.formname.elementname.value='blah';

or

opener.formname.elementname.value='blah';

that's in regards to the thread question, how to update the parent.

as for 2 forms in one page:

document.formB.elementname.value=document.formA.elementname.value;

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[Jaheel22]

Robert
parent.formname.elementname.value='blah';
It's not working. I get error that it's not object etc.

 

[DreXor]

it's replacement code, you replace the names of things in it.... but to aid in the copy paste situation :

parent.formA.HisAge.value='666'; // this will ONLY work with parent/child window situations (more than one window, where one was opened by the other)

if you're using the code as you posted in your original thread, there is no parent/child situation, in that case you will need :

document.formA.HisAge.value='666';


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[DreXor]

supplimentary code, just in case you want to know how to make it the same as another box in formB versus making him 666 years old or blah every time :

document.formA.HisAge.value=document.formB.HisAge.value;

this will ONLY work if there's a field called "HisAge" in formB from what i see above, there's nothing in the formB for me to be able to supply you decent copyable code for it.

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[Jaheel22]

Robert

I replaced that code with my actual form name etc.
Again, it's not working.

Plz let me clearify again.
Form A was submitted to Form B.
Now Form B is the current web page while Form A is the previous. Is there any way to change/modify form A field's values ?

Thanks again for taking time and answering my question.

Mac

 

[DreXor]

in THAT case it's the referring page, not the parent page.

to change formA's values, you would need to :

put another textbox in formB with the value desired from formA so it can be manually changed

press the back button and change/resubmit.

catch it after submit/onload of the second page (formB) and change the submitted value.

basically you're stuck with modifying the present, starting over ( back to the first form ), or banging around the value after you have it (second form)



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