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form.submit() does not work in sub window in FireFox

Greetings Experts,
In my current window, I need to populate a form in a hidden IFRAME element, then I need to submit it.
I tried :
- iframe.contentWindow.document.getElementById('myForm').submit();
or calling a function in that IFRAME that submits the form
or the __doPostBack of ASP .NET of that window

None of these work in FireFox, and they do not even fire errors, so I do not know what to look for anymore.
Do any of you has an idea of how to bypass this?
Thank you experts.

smaccari

If your Iframe is named "myFrame", do this:

frames["myframe"].document.getElementById('myForm').submit();

or

frames["myframe"].__doPostBack();

ID3TECH

ASKER

nah, this is not the problem, I have the form object int he new window, and when I do an alert of the form.submit, it is indeed a function, but when I call it, nothing happens

smaccari

Is it possible to have some of your code? Both main page and iframe?

Michel Plungjan

No errors in the javascript console?

1. make sure you have <form></form>
2. make sure you do NOT have anything name="submit" or id="submit"
3. use the form access:
window.iframeName.document.forms[0].submit()
will submit the first form in the iframe unless of course the content of the iframe is not from the same server (that also means portnumber and protocol)

Michel

ID3TECH

ASKER

Thanks for the help, but I just figured out it was because the Frame's style.display was set to none, so the javascript could not execute.

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