I am trying to make a simple call to my parent class from a modal-popup but IE is fighting me all the way. Any suggestions to get around it would be greatly appreciated.
Below is the stripped down code that I'm trying to use. It works quite well in FireFox but throws an error in IE - "Object doesn't support this property or method", referencing the line of code in the "Catch" block. This means that both the line in the Try and the Catch block do not work.
parent.html
<html><head>
<script>
function callMain(msg)
{
alert(msg);
}
function modalWin() {
if (window.showModalDialog) {
window.showModalDialog("topFrame1.html","name",
"dialogWidth:255px;dialogHeight:250px");
} else {
window.open('topFrame1.html','name',
'toolbar=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,modal=yes');
}
}
function getMainFrameVal()
{
return document.getElementById("mainframe").value;
}
</script>
</head> <body>
<a href="#" onclick="modalWin()" >PopUpWindow</a>
<form>
<input type=text id="mainframe" value="main"/>
</body></html>
topFrame1.html
<html><head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getMain(){
try{
alert("1 "+ window.opener.getMainFrameVal());
}catch(e)
{
alert("2 " +window.parent.getMainFrameVal());
}
}
</script>
</head> <body>
TOP <a href="#" onclick="getMain()">click for main</a> <br/><br/>
</body></html>
window.openeris for use with opening popups withwindow.open().Are you sure parent.html is the parent of topFrame1.html and you're not secretly using a frameset or something?