How can 2 html pages communicate?

[Aman Rustogi]

Hi,
I've a parent HTML page from which i'm invoking a child window (html) and i need to both these pages to communicate with each other. The child window has a certain set of codes which when selected should populate a combo box in my parent html window.
How do i go abt doing this? plz help me
Thanking you in advance...
Aman Rustogi

[Anonymous]

One way you could do it is make the child a <DIV> or a <SPAN> and hide it until you need to use it. That way all of your code is in the same page and you can access various elements just by referencing their names or IDs.

[Jaime Shaker]

Originally posted by Aman Rustogi:
Hi,
I've a parent HTML page from which i'm invoking a child window (html) and i need to both these pages to communicate with each other. The child window has a certain set of codes which when selected should populate a combo box in my parent html window.
How do i go abt doing this? plz help me
Thanking you in advance...
Aman Rustogi

Hi there
If your using javascript, couldn't you just use the
opener object to target the parent window?
Jaime

[L Richardson]

Jamie
You can use the opener.windowname.document.all(nameofcontrol).additem theitem
to populate your combo box one at the time.
if for some reason this doesnt work let me know
[email protected]
Good Luck :-)