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access dhtmlxWindow content

Hi,

I have created a dhtmlxWindow, attached a url using ajax, and am trying to access an element within it.

I created the window like so:

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var dhxWins = new dhtmlXWindows();
var ajaxApplicationWindow = null;
function ajaxApplicationWindowOpen(title, url)
{
ajaxApplicationWindow = dhxWins.createWindow('ajaxApplicationWindow', 0, 0, 400, 570);
ajaxApplicationWindow.centerOnScreen();
ajaxApplicationWindow.setText(title);
ajaxApplicationWindow.denyResize();
ajaxApplicationWindow.button("park").disable();
ajaxApplicationWindow.button("park").hide();
ajaxApplicationWindow.button("minmax1").disable();
ajaxApplicationWindow.button("minmax1").hide();
ajaxApplicationWindow.attachURL(url, true);
}
ajaxApplicationWindowOpen('foo', 'foo.html');
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I've written a function to get at the element using your example:

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function getWindowElementById(windowId, elementId)
{
if (_isIE)
{
return dhxWins.window(windowId)._frame.contentWindow.document.getElementById(elementId);
}
else
{
return dhxWins.window(windowId)._frame.contentDocument.getElementById(elementId);
}
}
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I am trying to access the element like so...

alert(getWindowElementById('ajaxApplicationWindow', 'id').value);

...but it errors in Firefox with 'dhxWins.window(windowId)._frame is null' :-/

Please advise.

Hello,
You use ajax loading. The pages aren't placed into iframes. So, you can try a simple approach:

function getWindowElementById(windowId, elementId) {
return document.getElementById(elementId);
}
 

Works great, thanks!

I had made the mistake of referencing an id that didn't exist (oops) which naturally errored. I assumed it was because I needed to access the iframe.