writeln in other windows?

[Granger9]

I have opened a window using javascript with the following code:


window.open('printout.html','prinout','location=no,status=no,height=200,width=300');


I have some information i have in a text area on the main page to be transfered onto the newly opened window. Can this be done and if so how?

Thanks
Dan

[fredmv]

You would first need to assign the new window to a variable. This way, you can reference the document contained in the new window and read and write information to and from it. Here's how it would be done:var w = window.open('printout. html','prinout','location=no,status=no,height=200,width=300');Now, the variable w has a reference to the document contained in the new window. In this case, printout.html. So, since you have a textarea in the parent document, and you want to transfer it to the child window, you could do this:with( w.window.document )
{
writeln( document.form.textarea.value );
}This is where document.form.textarea.value is a reference to the textarea element in the parent document.

I hope that helps you out. :cool:

[Granger9]

Thanks.

the printout.html file already has a load of HTML in it and I just want to tag the data in the textarea onto the end of the HTML. As using the method above overwrites whats already in the HTML file.

Thanks again