Hello

Is there a way of updating a field on a web page from another, without using the reload function.

The application I am creating is running a number of queries to a DB2 database. Due to the response times I have put each query into a separate iframe but I want to be able to update a field on the main page from several of the queries.

Regards
James

You'd have to do this with JavaScript. I have a page that contains an iframe. When my parent window submit's its form to the iframe, I use Javascript in the iframe to update the parent frame.

Hello

Thanks for that. Can you tell me how you do that? Do you use document.all?

Regards
James

It's really dependant upon the browser you're targetting, but in IE, you can reference the parent window with "window.parent".

What I did was have a form on the parent window that had several fields. When the value of the field changed I change the URL of the IFrame to pass a querystring of the field and value to be validated against some DB info. The page in the IFrame queries the DB, validates the value (or doesn't), then writes some javascript to change the color or background of the field on the parent window accordingly. So the JavaScript on the IFrame used "window.parent" to make those changes.

Example:
This would change the color of the text in the field "phonenum" on the parent window to red from the IFrame.

Thanks for the example. That's exactly what I need.

Regards,
James