Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello:

Sorry that this is a little off-topic for this forum, but I had problems finding a decent HTML forum.

My problem is that I want to have a form pop up in a new window when a link is clicked, and submitting this form will make the results appear in the parent window. This last part is what has me stumped; no matter what I do, the results go anywhere but the parent window. This is easy to do using frames, but using frames is not practical in my case.

From what I understand, the "target" attribute of a form must be a named frame in some existing frameset. I tried to use "window.opener", "_parent", "parent", "parent.opener", etc as attributes for the target attribute of the form, but none of them worked. Just to be sure, I reworked it so the parent page was a page using frames, and that worked when I made the target of the form a named frame in the parent.

Does anyone know how to do this with non-frame pages? I just want to click a link, pop up a form in a new window, submit the form and have the results in the original window. This ought to be simple - what am I doing wrong here? Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
Pat Reaney