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Javascript Form Targetting

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Topic: Javascript Form Targetting

Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Subject: Javascript Form Targetting
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 12:12am

Is there any way that I can use javascript to alter the target and action of a form, like document.form.target='this_window' and document.form.action='thepage.htm'?

or have i just answered my own question?

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 1:15am

I think you may of possibly answered your own question.

Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 2:02am

lol ok...

I went looking again and found a list of properties, but what i found said that only form.action was read/write... is that true? or are the writers of that site full of it?

Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 2:55am

Sorry don't quite understand,

document.form.action

Should work fine as a read and write. EG reading the value:

var myVar = document.form.action;
(possibly document.form.action.value;)

And write would be:

document.form.action = 'new.asp';

Hope this helps.

Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 4:12pm

i found something that suggested that while action could be changed using document.form.action = 'thepage.asp', the target could only be read, not written.

Is it true that target is a read-only property as far as js is concerned, or do you still call it as document.form.target = 'New_window'?