setting child window form values from parent window.

Hey all!

What's the syntax for setting child window form values from it's parent window?

I'm trying this without much luck:

var newWin = window.open( ... );
newWin.document.forms[0].fieldname.value = "new value";

Any ideas?

That's odd. Your code looks fine. There maybe some kinda security issue there?

Have you had any luck solving the problem?

Hey Stumpy,

Yes, it turned out the problem was with cross-site scripting. The above code would work fine with opening a new window, but not with opening a page on a different site; the child window doesn't appear to be allowed to be set from the parent window since it doesn't really 'belong' to it.

Thanks for the post, though! :-)