I still think you do want to do things onload to get your alert box, but i did go to your page and now understand better what you want.

ok for starters add this above "function onMessage(event)" 

 function showTable(loc) {
  document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML="Waiting on:" + loc;
  document.getElementById("dataDialog").src = loc; 
  }

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then under 
<iframe id="dataDialog" name="dataDialog" style="float:right"; src="";
+ border:1px solid black;" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true" all
+owfullscreen="false" frameborder="no" width="200" height="400" >
</iframe>

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add 
 
<div id="tableId" style="background-color:lightgray"></div>

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now change 
 
<input type="button" class="jalaLtSans" value="Member Table Data Updat
+e" style="background-color:#0D4A80; width : 250px; color:#fff" onClic
+k = "self.location='https://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/update_
+tables-development.cgi?action=updatetable_3'"/>

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to 
 
<input type="button" class="jalaLtSans" value="Member Table Data Updat
+e" style="background-color:#0D4A80; width : 250px; color:#fff" onClic
+k = "showTable('https://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/update_tabl
+es-development.cgi?action=updatetable_3')"/>

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.location and .src may do the same, my code uses .src

Now try pressing the "Member Table Data Update" button, is that better?

now if you still want the "Get File Load Status" button change its code to 

<input type="button" class="jalaLtSans" value="Get File Load Status" s
+tyle="background-color:#0D4A80; width : 250px; color:#fff" onClick = 
+"showTable('https://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/update_tables-d
+evelopment.cgi?action=updatereport')"/>

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How is that? aww but you want to get rid of the "waiting on" junk now dont ya? Well that is part of the side effect of my iframeLoad call from the cgi. so change your cgi-bins that use this technique to look something like 
 
print $q->header( -type =>'text/html');
print <<"EODEOD";
<title>mytitle</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function iframeLoad(a) {
 a = document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML;
 parent.document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML = a; 
 parent.document.getElementById("dataDialog").src = "about:blank"; 
}//-->
</script>
<body onload="iframeLoad()">
<div id="tableId">
EODEOD
......
print '</div>';

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After running this a bit you may understand why my code has style="visibility:hidden;display:none" for hiframe

now as an exercise for the reader, imagine that showTable instead looked like this 

 function showTable(loc,table) {
  document.getElementById(table).innerHTML="Waiting on:" + loc;
  document.getElementById("dataDialog").src = loc; 
  }

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and the onClicks were suitably modified to contain the proper ids, say table1,table2,table3 and these were spread out in your code 
<div id="tableid1" style="background-color:lightgray"></div>
<div id="tableid2" style="background-color:lightgray"></div>
<div id="tableid3" style="background-color:lightgray"></div>

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and each different cgi-bin program used its own tableid instead of the generic TableId i showed. cute huh? I just showed you stuff from the simpler page so you wouldnt get too confused. One side effect i havent corrected for is that only one "button" can be in progress at a time, i never put a locking protocol in place, i just dont press another button till the last has finished

And yet i still tend to deny knowing any javascript,and Noscript blocks most pages i visit. I also deny knowing any cobol, c, or assembler too cuz last time i admitted to knowing cobol they made me program in it. and made me read other peoples dumps, Dont know TPF either

BTW: Doesnt routine that send back html to the iframe? should have been "Doesnt the routine send back html to the iframe?" Aparently not, it just replaced the main page it seems.

and Gad it takes me time to work out the bugs in this stuff.
"what do you mean ME kemosabe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWuMevc6G4w edit: i like this one better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1TmhBJxO70

In reply to Re^5: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck
in thread send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk

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