help

[Medical Watch]

Can anyone help me on this:
I want to be able to open my paypal "view shopping cart" window with.
window.open(url , cartid,window attrb) but it gets blocked by the popup
blockers. window size is 740X400. is there any way to avoid popup blocker?
or do i need to open the full screen size window with form.post.
Thanks

[Grant Wagner]

Re: help

Medical Watch wrote:
[color=blue]
> Can anyone help me on this:
> I want to be able to open my paypal "view shopping cart" window with.
> window.open(url , cartid,window attrb) but it gets blocked by the popup
> blockers. window size is 740X400. is there any way to avoid popup blocker?
> or do i need to open the full screen size window with form.post.
> Thanks[/color]

No, there is no way to avoid popups blockers. They block popups, that's what
they do, if there were a way around them, they would have no reason to exist.

Most popup blockers will not block new windows created as the direct result of
a user action (but some will, some will also open the new "window" in a
separate tab, or in the same window as the current document).

So, you could try to re-write your code to make your window.open() the direct
result of a user action:

<a href="#" onclick="functi on1();return false;">...</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
function function1() {
// this line will probably work, even in the presence
// of most popup blockers (but not all popup blockers)
window.open(... );
// this line will probably not work in a lot of popup blockers
window.open(... );
// the window.open(... ) requested in function2()
// will almost certainly not work in almost all popup
// blockers, it is "too far away" from the original user action
function2();
}
function function2() {
window.open();
}
</script>

Alternatively, you can hope the user agent will react properly to:

<form ... target="_blank" >

But your best bet is to re-think your workflow to remove the need for a new
window.

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Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>
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