Re: Frames and forms help.

[Edvardas Pazera <edas@micros.et.byu.edu>]

>         I am writing a page with JS and frames, and I have a question about
> accessing forms from different frames.  Each frame conatains documents with
> some of their own JS <script> and a form.  I am trying to get an onClick()
> on one form to copy a value from another form in another frame. like putting
> in one script:
>                         onClick="parent.total.myform.textbox.value='5'";
> 
> where total is a named frame, myform is a named form in it, and textbox is
> in that form.  This line is on a form in another named frame. What I always
> get back is a "myform has no properties" error. Is there a way to get into
> one form's fields from another form/file/script? Or will i have to make
> variables to hold the data, and then trigger a function on the other page to
> read it in?


If I were you, I would try a line like this:

onClick="parent.total.forms[?].textbox.value='5'";

where '?' is an integer (w/o quotes!) of the frame in order of
appearance.  I have tried addressing the form ny name in THE SAME page,
and it was giving me the same message as for you.  After I addressed it
with an index it changed for better.


Cheers,

Edas