Question

I am using window.opener to pass a string value from a child window to a parent window as so-

function reply_click(clicked_id)
{
alert(clicked_id);

window.opener.document.write(clicked_id);
window.close ();
}

Where the cliced_id is the string I am passing back.

However I want to pass this back to a hidden input on the main page so I can use it again. The problem being is that I cannot specify where to put the string value on the main page and instead it just loads the string value in a new page without any of the original content.

Is it possible to pass back the string and keep the original HTML content?

Answer 1

Yes, if you have a an element on the original page with an id , you can reference that using getElementById and set the innerHTML:

eg, with an empty div on the page:

<div id="myDiv"></div>

You could use this code

function reply_click(clicked_id)
{
    alert(clicked_id);
    window.opener.document.getElementById("myDiv").innerHTML = clicked_id;
}