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[milams]

I was wondering if anybody would be able to help me on this? Is there a way that you can take information from a pop up window(ie. A Hyperlink) and have it poulate a field in a form on the page where the pop up window came from. I hope that makes sense.

 

[cLFlaVA]

Yes.

In your popup window, if you're trying to populate the parent form with a button click event, try the following:

var the_val = document.pop_up_form_name.field_name.value;
window.opener.parent_form_name.field_name.value = the_val;

*cLFlaVA
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The bartender asks, "Are you aware that you have a steering wheel down your pants?"
The pirate replies, "Arrrrr! It's driving me nuts!

 

[milams]

Does the pop up window have to be a form? The pop up window is a search result created from a dynamic list querying a database in PHP.

 

[cLFlaVA]

Nope. It could have a link on it.

For example (not tested):

<script language="javascript">
<!--
function popParent(the_val) {
    window.opener.parent_form_name.field_name.value = the_val;
}
-->
</script>

...

<?
echo '<a href="#" onclick="popParent(\'' . $val . '\')">' . $val . '</a>';
?>

*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
A pirate walks into a bar with a huge ship's steering wheel down his pants.
The bartender asks, "Are you aware that you have a steering wheel down your pants?"
The pirate replies, "Arrrrr! It's driving me nuts!

 

[milams]

That did the trick. Thank you very much. You all were a great help.