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Preview button for a News Manager

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Topic: Preview button for a News Manager

Posted By: moti
Subject: Preview button for a News Manager
Date Posted: 19 April 2005 at 12:28am

Hi all

I created a News manager with ASP
in Post News Page I have 2 button first one "Publish" and second is "Preview News" like this forum,

the problem,

I have a page with this name "dostuff.asp" this page is for posting news ,
I am using this javascript code for previewing News in a popup window
the page for previewing news is a section of dostuff.asp

when I click on Preview button every thing is ok and it will show me the preview of News ,
But when I close the preview window and click on publish button it will open preview window again,

Its something like a history for javascript after clicking on preview button it will store file address in somewhere and after I click on the publish it will open stored address of file

what is the solution for this problem?

Thanks

Replies:

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 19 April 2005 at 2:41am

function publish()
{

document.postnews.action.value = 'post';

document.postnews.target='postNews.asp';

document.postnews.submit();

}

Try doing that

Posted By: moti
Date Posted: 19 April 2005 at 11:24am

thanks but an error:

Object doesn't support this property or method

the line 150 line 150 is this

<input type="button" value="Preview" name="B3" onclick="publish()">

where I call the function

Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 25 April 2005 at 8:45pm

make sure the names of the form and field are accurate, both in spelling and capitalisation. I think it is somethng to do with it not picking an element up properly. If all else fails, you could try getElementById('action').value = 'post' instead of document.postnews.value