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How do I hide a layer in parent window from inside an iframe?

Sep 2nd, 2007 13:37
Dave Clark, Yeagz Yeagz,

For example, when I click the hyperlink below, I want it to hide a 
particular layer in the parent window...however, I'm inside an iframe 
and don't know how to pass the parent layer's div id 
(stock_exp_close)...nothing happens.
document.write('<a href="_php/stock_sym_export.php?
stocksymbols='+stocksymbols+'" onclick="toggle_layer
("stock_exp_close");">Yes</a>');
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Yeagz,
If I understand your setup, a variation on the following function 
should do the trick:
function toggle_layer(id)
{
  var obj = parent.document.getElementById(id);
  if (obj)
  {
    if (obj.style.display == 'none')
    {
        obj.style.display = '';
    }
    else
    {
        obj.style.display = 'none';
    }
  }
  return true;
}
Take care,
Dave Clark
www.DaveClarkConsulting.com
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