The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Assignment

We've learned how to change the contents of the status bar of a window we've opened using JavaScript:

var my_window = window.open("http://www.nostarch.com","my_window");
my_window.status = "I'm in the new window's status bar!";

We can use a similar technique to swap an image in a window we've opened using JavaScript. Remember, the code to swap an image looks like this, where the_image is the name of an image on the page:

window.document.the_image.src = "new_image.gif"

To swap an image in another window, just replace window in the script with the name of the window containing the image.

Your homework assignment is to write a page (let's call it the main page) that contains two links. Write some JavaScript so that when the main page opens, ...