This seemed so trivial when I started off with it! My objective is this:

• When user clicks on a button, open up a form in a new window.


• Once the form is submitted, close the popup and return to the original page. The reverse order is fine too - i.e., I am okay if the popup is closed and then the form submits.

Here's how I'm doing this:

<form action=/system/wpacert method=post enctype=multipart/form-data onsubmit=return closeSelf() name=certform>

                <div>Certificate 1: <input type=file name=cert1/></div>

                <div>Certificate 2: <input type=file name=cert2/></div>

                <div>Certificate 3: <input type=file name=cert3/></div>



                <div><input type=submit value=Upload/></div>

            </form>

and the Javascript looks like this:

<script type=text/javascript>

function closeSelf(){

    self.close();

    return true;

}

</script>

This seems to work fine on IE8 and Chrome; but Firefox refuses to submit the form; it just closes the popup. What might I be doing wrong?

EDIT:

Had forgotten to post the code the opens the popup. Here it is:

<div><input type=submit value=Upload Certificates onclick=popupUploadForm()/>

And the corresponding javascript:

function popupUploadForm(){

        var newWindow = window.open('/cert.html', 'name', 'height=500,width=600');

    }