Openning a hidden window

I guess you can have an invisible window only by making use of frames. Say you have a frameset structure something like this

<frameset rows="0,*">
<frame name="frame1" href="page1.html">
<frame name="frame2" href="page2.html">
</frameset>

Now, when you open the page containing the frameset, you can see only one page i.e. page2.html. Page1.html is hidden.

You can write to the document by using

top.frame2.document.write(...)

Hope this helps !!!!!

Thank you for your input, but I already have this working with an <IFRAME>. And I want to avoid a frames page. There are side effects which I am hoping to avoid using a window.

I like it!

One thing: to avoid waiting for the window to open, I will have a script which runs in the new window onLoad event.

How would you write to the document that opened the current window?

Gary

You want to "write" content to the parent window you mean?

Well to access the parent window you use:

window.opener

and then you can do things like:

window.opener.document.write("Hello!");
window.opener.document.close();

That will of course completely overwrite the page currently being displayed.

A common thing is to redirect the parent window e.g.

window.opener.location = "nextpage.html";

:o)

Ant

Ahh... window.opener - great!

I'm writing for IE, what I need to write is:

window.opener.document.<DivName>.innerHTML = "some text"

Actually, this is for domain name registration, the "some text" will be either a red X or a check box. It works from an IFRAME, it's just that each time I load the IFRAME, the calling document gets repositioned.

Thanks!

My pleasure - thanks for the A!

:o)

Ant