200120 - parent construction don't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Murphy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030324 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030324 Phoenix/0.5

I cannot get into window parent's parent properties & method, construction
parent.parent doesn't work in Mozilla, but works in Opera 7.0 and IE 5.5. I use
two frame HTML files with contents like 

First file : 
...
<frameset ...>
<frame name=leftframe ... src=leftframe>
<frame name=rightframe ... src=rightframe>
</frameset>
...

And rightframe file something like this :

...
<frameset ...>
<frame name=top ... src=top>
<frame name=middle ... src=middle>
<frame name=bottom ... src=bottom>
</frameset>
...

In middle frame I have form and I need to submit this form onClick button in
bottom frame. I used construction parent.middle.form_name.submit(), it doesn't
work nor in Opera, so I changed it to
parent.parent.right.middle.form_name.submit(), this works, but only in Opera,
not in Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> parent.parent.right.middle.form_name.submit()

"right"?  Or "rightframe"?

In any case, this is totally the wrong component.  The JS engine has no concept
of windows, frames, HTML, etc.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this still an issue?  If so, please attach an HTML testcase showing it....

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

Reporter, we have not heard from you for a very long time. If the problem still
exists in/with a recent build, then include a testcase (preferably) or an url in
a comment so that we can confirm the issue you see. Right now, there is very
little to go on.

Resolving as WORKSFORME