worked on a simple window.opner() and it worked fine like this.









The above worked as expected. However, when I change the second file like this it does not close the window or communicate to the parent window. I wonder what am I doing wrong?






The last example does not close the window. Could you do like this" document.write('<a href="javascript: doStuff("this");">close</a>');"

Also, when I call my function goSearch() it takes removes the form from the screen and just shows the output of the function. Is it possible to continue to view the form without using frames?

 

 

 

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Because, of your use of " and '

<a href="javascript: doStuff("this");">

It should be:

<a href="javascript: doStuff('this');">

Your using the speech marks in the command 2 times so html will close the command when it sees the speech marks again. So it sees what your trying to do as this:

<a href="javascript: doStuff("this");">

The part in red is how it sees your link. The other part in blue it sees as stuff it doesn't need so it springs up a code error and doesn't work. Understand?

Right, now you want to write it in javascript and you want to use 3 types of speech marks for that but you only have 2 (' and ").

So you need to write it like this:

document.write("<a href=\"javascript: doStuff('this');\">");

I've added red marks where the key is the backslash. This is javascript 3rd speech mark only to be used inside document.write() and is the the answer to your worries!

 

 

 

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