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Re: Variable scope between <script>

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On 5/10/2012 4:19 AM, Andreas Bergmaier wrote:
> Scott Johnson schrieb:
>
>> I tried to call window.location.href ? .pathname which sends back the
>> original name of the file the script is located '/~domain/music.html' as
>> expected but not helpful.
>>
>> What I was thinking was place the window.location.pathname on the 'home'
>> page set a global variable which can be read by the script on music.html.
>>
>> Is this even possible?
>> Global variables accessible across scripts.
>
> You can access the global object of the parent window with "parent",
> even the global object of the top window with "top" for deeply nested
> frames. Precondition is that both pages are located in the same domain
> for security reasons, which will be no problem in your case.
>
> So you may check parent.location.href, but you can also set up a
> function in the homepage that calls the play() function in the frame by
> accessing the frame's global object.
>
> regards,
> Bergi

Ahhh.

parent & top

That makes sense.  I will give that some experimentation.

Thanks for the reply.  That is very good info to know.

Scotty

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Variable scope between <script> Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-05-09 18:16 -0700
  Re: Variable scope between <script> Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2012-05-10 13:19 +0200
    Re: Variable scope between <script> Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-05-10 05:16 -0700
    Re: Variable scope between <script> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-05-10 19:26 +0200
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