Thanks Matt, that's a very good point. But what do I need to do in the Onsubmit handler? I have already set the values to the input fields using Javascript.
Just to be clear, here is my use case: 1. The parent window has a "Search" button; 2. When the "Search" button is clicked, it opens a popup window; 3. The user does the search in the popup window, find a list of results; 4. The user clicks a link from the search result which calls a Javascript function to populate some value to the parent window; 5. The Javascript function then calls the parent window's form object to submit (like parentWinForm.submit()) the parent form; 6. Close the Popup window. The issue is: The search did got populated in the parent window, and the parent window did refresh, but the parent window didn't do a post using the populated value from the search. The backing bean's setter methods not called. > Does the form have an onsubmit handler that needs to be called to set any > of > its values? Onsubmit handlers aren't called when you invoke the submit > method on the form object, so you will need to call whatever function it > is > explicitly before the invocation. > > If that's not what it is, then I don't know what to suggest. > > -Matt > > On 9/26/05, Saul Qunming Yuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I'm trying to use Javascript to submit a form, the page does refresh, >> however, it doesn't appear to be a post action, the form inputs don't >> update >> the value in the backing bean, none of the setter methods get called. >> It's >> like a get action. Any ideas what the problem could be? >> thanks, >> Saul >> >
