How to capture the date selected in a pop up

[rockyl]

Hi, I have a web page where clicking on a button I am opening another web form using window.open function. Now I want to know how to capture the date selected by the user and put it in the parent web form. Regards, Rocky

Rakesh

[Sandeep Kumar]

hi.... You can do that using window.opener in javascript Example.... 1.html var anotherwindow=window.open("2.html") //change the background color of the second window from main anotherwindow.bgColor="black" 2.html Secondary window Regards, Sandeep Kumar.V

[kubben]

The child form has a concept of the parent. You can access controls on the parent form via javascript. In javascript you would do something like this:

self.opener.document.forms[0].parentControl.Value = childControl.value;

Hope that helps. Ben

[rockyl]

Thanks for the response. Where you want me to put this code in the child page. I mean in which event?

Rakesh

[kubben]

Here is some vb.net code I wrote a while back. I had the user press a save button that did a post back and then called this method:

Private Sub closewindow(ByVal indate As Date)
Dim myScript As New StringBuilder
With myScript
.Append("")
.Append(Environment.NewLine)
'This code sets the correct field on the opener form
Dim tmpstr As String = "self.opener.document.forms[0]." + CStr(Session("DatelookupField"))
.Append(tmpstr)
.Append(".value = """)
.Append(indate.ToShortDateString)
.Append("""")
.Append(Environment.NewLine)
'focus the opener form
.Append("self.opener.focus()")
.Append(Environment.NewLine)
'Close the calendar window
.Append("self.close()")
.Append(Environment.NewLine)
.Append("")
Page.RegisterStartupScript("close window", .ToString())
End With
End Sub

All this code is .net 1.1 I set a session variable in the parent form so I knew what the control name was to pass the date back to the parent form. Hope that helps. Ben