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Capturing the value of form elements on submit within an Iframe

Hi there I have a form with various form elements on it, textboxes, e.t.c I also have 4 iframes which hold form elements. At the moment when I submit the form the values of the iframes are not being submitted, only the values on the parent form are being submitted. Is there anyway I can capture the values of the iframes as well as the parent form values?

Here is an example of the Iframe.

<iframe
src = 'clientdrp.asp'
id = 'ifrClient'
name = 'ifrClient'
frameborder = '0'
width = '230'
height = '20'
marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0"
hspace="0"
vspace="0"
border="0"
scrolling="no">
</iframe>

and here is an example of the content within that Iframe.

<div id="menu" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 436px; left: 0px;" align=left>
<select name="ContactID" size="1">
<option value="0">-- Please Select A Contact--</option>
<%
Do Until objRSProjectManagerList.EOF
Response.Write("<option value=""" & objRSProjectManagerList.Fields("Id") & """>" & objRSProjectManagerList.Fields("FirstName") & " " & objRSProjectManagerList.Fields("LastName") & "</option>")
objRSProjectManagerList.MoveNext
Loop
Set objRSProjectManagerList = Nothing
%>
</select>
</div>

as you can see the name of that dropdown is ContactID, so if I could capture that, it woujld be great.

Thanks in Advance!

Michel Plungjan

From the same server?

<script>
function getContact() {
if (window.frames.length==0) return ""; // no iframes here
var ifr = window.frames['ifrClient'];
if (!ifr) return ""; // no iframe called ifrClient here
var sel = ifr.document.forms[0].ContactID;
return sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].value

}
</script>
<form onSubmit="this.hiddenContactID.value=getContact()">
<input type="hidden"name="hiddenContactID" value="">

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MayoorPatel

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Brilliant thanks!