Changing Parent CSS from Popup

[Marc Luzietti]

I'm trying to hide a style on the popup window's parent. It's not working.

function hideParentClock2() {
try {
var style2 = window.opener.getElementById('cover');
style2.display = "none";
}
catch(e) {
}
setTimeout("self.close()",5);
}

[Eric Pascarello]

Are you getting an error message if you remove the try catch? What does the error message say?

If you have Firefox, install the firebug extension. It will make you life easier to debug JavaScript errors.

Eric

[Marc Luzietti]

I tried a different route, and called a function on the window.opener

thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

Wow, I see the issue

var style2 = window.opener.getElementById('cover').style;
style2.display = "none";

or

var style2 = window.opener.getElementById('cover');
style2.style.display = "none";

Eric

[Marc Luzietti]

The first one didn't work. That was my original solution. I added an alert to display style2 and it was undefined. When I cut style from it, I got [object]

The second one might work.