Popup windows from Dropdown box

**kaeli** · Jul 23 '05, 12:17 PM

Re: Popup windows from Dropdown box

In article <q9hlf01gk1h07i 9hfal46ocpstr02 e7ic9@4ax.com>, ian@hubling.com
enlightened us with...[color=blue]
>
> I want to create a simple dropdown - so that selecting any item will
> force a popup window to appear. I need to control the size and
> atributes of the popup window (ie the popup window will show sample
> colors / patterns of a product).
>[/color]

Do you want the popup to open a pre-existing page or do you want to
write to a new document?
The script will differ greatly depending.

I'll assume you're opening an already existing document, as that's much
easier. ;)
Watch for word-wrapping.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> New Document </title>

<script language="javas cript" type="text/javascript">
var p_window=null;
function popWindow(actio n)
{
if (action == "0") return;
p_window = window.open(act ion,"Sample","h eight=300,width =
300,scrollbars= yes,resizable=y es");
p_window.focus( );
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="f1">
<select name="s1" onChange="popWi ndow(this.optio ns
[this.selectedIn dex].value)">
<option value="0">-- Choose One --</option>
<option value="page1.ht ml">Sample 1</option>
<option value="page2.ht ml">Sample 2</option>
<option value="page3.ht ml">Sample 3</option>
<option value="page4.ht ml">Sample 4</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Popup windows from Dropdown box

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