window.opener.document["nameForm"].getElementById("someid").value; doesnt work

drpompeii · February 17th, 2007, 08:09 PM

Hello guys

i really need your help

i have a popup window, then when i finished (pressing submit button) call onSubmit
method of the form and then call some method in javascript (the js file is an external file) and use some sentence how this

Code:

window.opener.document["nameForm"].getElementById("someid").value;

well this doesnt work
now if the element is a textinput how

Code:

<input type="text" name="somename" value=""  id="someid"/>

i can use this to avoid the problem

Code:

window.opener.document["nameForm"].somename.value;

now the problem is this

Code:

<span name="othersomename" id="othersomenid" style="display:none;">
    <h1>some data</h1>
                ...
</span>

with span the name property is ignored
so if i use this

Code:

    window.opener.document["nameForm"].othersomename.style.display="";

i recive the error message
window.opener.document.nameForm.othersomename has no properties
or

Code:

window.opener.document["nameForm"].getElementById("othersomenid").style.display="";

i recive this error message:
window.opener.document.nameForm.getElementById is not a function

pls, how i can resolve this???

thanks so much for advanced

BTW : i am using firefox 1.5.0.9 in linux