Hi - I've just joined this forum and had a fair look around for answers to my problem but can't see any.

I am attempting to change an image from a child window with the window.opener property.

Works fine in IE5

Basically the opening document is part of a frameset with an image array and displays the image with:-

var image=new Array()
image[0]=new Image()
image[0].src="num1.gif"
document.write('<img src="'+image[0].src+'" name="one">')
window.open("fred.html")

Then from fred.html, I say:-

opener.parent.mainFrame.one.src="num2.gif"


As I say. OK in IE but the image doesn't change in firefox - any suggestions?

Originally Posted by drjohn

+image[0].src+'" name="one">')
window.open("fred.html")

That will be blocked by anyone (almost everyone) using a popup blocker

Then from fred.html, I say:-

opener.parent.mainFrame.one.src="num2.gif"

As I say. OK in IE but the image doesn't change in firefox - any suggestions?

I.E. often accepts ambiguous addressing; FX quite rightly does not. Try:

opener.parent.frames.mainFrame.document.images.one.src="num2.gif";

Javascript does not function as correctly with Firefox and opera. And if the POPups are blocked also this might not work. First check those