Set Document Object

[Sisilla]

Hello All,

Hopefully, this is not a totally moronic question, but is there a way
to change the document object referred to by the 'document' keyword?
(I hope that made sense...)

After I submit a form in frame1 that has frame2 as its target, I would
like to refer back to elements in frame1 using
'document.getElementById...'. instead of using
'parent.frame1.document...'. Is there any way to accomplish this?

I appreciate any help. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Sisilla

 

[Martin Honnen]

After I submit a form in frame1 that has frame2 as its target, I would
like to refer back to elements in frame1 using
'document.getElementById...'. instead of using
'parent.frame1.document...'. Is there any way to accomplish this?

Well you could do
var document = parent.frame1.document;
but you lose access to the original document that way so I don't think
it is a good idea.
If you want to save on typing then do e.g.
var doc = parent.frame1.document;
and use the doc variable

 

[Sisilla]

   var document = parent.frame1.document;

Thanks a bunch, Martin. Exactly what I needed. ~Sisilla

 

[Evertjan.]

Martin Honnen wrote on 15 feb 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:

Well you could do
var document = parent.frame1.document;
but you lose access to the original document that way so I don't think
it is a good idea.
If you want to save on typing then do e.g.
var doc = parent.frame1.document;
and use the doc variable

var response = document;
response.write('blablah');

The above is very nice for testing some serverside intended js code
in a browser.

 

[Aditya]

Thanks a bunch, Martin. Exactly what I needed. ~Sisilla

dude i always thought document was a read-only reference to the DOM
root
....and probably my firefox still thinks so....coz this didn't work as
i had expected....
r u sure u can alter the reference held by document keyword