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david_hemingway

April 29th, 2003, 12:05 PM

I'm building a site that runs in the search panel of IE and i'm trying to get the url from the main window, it's now starting to drive me nuts.

Has anybody got any ideas. i've tried javascript parent.location.href.

Cheers

Satishpp

April 29th, 2003, 04:59 PM

I am not sure about

building a site that runs in the search panel of IE

may be this will work

top.location.href

Satish

david_hemingway

April 30th, 2003, 03:59 AM

No it dosn't i've tried that. It looks like i have to use something along the lines of external.location.href but have never used this before and keeps returning errors, also found some stuff on the webBrowser.LocationURL but that's not clear and again all i'm getting is errors

nategrover

May 1st, 2003, 03:24 PM

try referencing the document i.e. parent.document.location.href or top.document.location.href

the "parent" and "top" refs are to window objects, which contain a document object . Window objects do not have an href property.

ketakimd

May 27th, 2003, 07:29 PM

I am new to Java Script.
Can you post the code to get URL from address bar?
I am working on project for blind people.
Thanks.

antares686

May 28th, 2003, 05:33 AM

Location is how you read the address. It has multiple options available to it so you need to lookup the details. In your case you use href to get the address. So based on this say you want to write the address inside your page when loaded you could do.

<html>
<body>

<script language=javascript>
document.write(location.href);
</script>

</body>
</html>

ketakimd

May 28th, 2003, 01:31 PM

Thanks a lot.
This works.