popup window to editor

[Joe Jose]

Hi,

In the project which I am doing, I have got a screen with an editor (Asbru Content Editor) and a button on its 'onclick' function a popup window with a list of items.
The popup window has got an 'ADD' and a 'CLOSE' button.
At first I failed to paste selected item (one or more) into the editor. I was using Asbur Editor's javascript function to paste the value. Following is the code:

  
function pasteValue(){
   var ele = document.getElementById('variablelist');
   var val = ele[ele.selectedIndex].value;      window.opener.WebEditorPasteContent(val); //editor script
   self.focus();
   }

Then with the help of my colleague I was successful.The change I made is :

    
function pasteValue(){
   var ele = document.getElementById('variablelist');
   var val = ele[ele.selectedIndex].value;
   [B]val  = '<lms>' + val + '</lms>';[/B]  //newly added(<lms> is a pretend tag
   window.opener.WebEditorPasteContent(val);
   self.focus();
   }

But I don't understand why it worked on this way.My colleagues explanation was it was trying to access the variables as html. But I didn't understand it.

Can anybody help me to clarify this ? Please don't hesitate to ask if you don't understand my explanation.

Thanks,
Joe.