Opening new window in Mozilla

[Rob]

Why does the following code NOT work in Mozilla, but it DOES in IE
(for Mac) and Safari?

<a href="somepage. html" onClick="window .open('somepage .html',
'SomeWindowTitl e', 'width=790,heig ht=560, scrollbar=auto,
menubar=no');"> Enter</a>

Please help...thanks

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Opening new window in Mozilla


"Rob" <robert_smith02 68@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
news:3b34d25d.0 309091406.54102 afa@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Why does the following code NOT work in Mozilla, but it DOES in IE
> (for Mac) and Safari?
>
> <a href="somepage. html" onClick="window .open('somepage .html',
> 'SomeWindowTitl e', 'width=790,heig ht=560, scrollbar=auto,
> menubar=no');"> Enter</a>
>
> Please help...thanks[/color]

Works in my copy (Mozilla v1.4), but is the following not what you really
want?

<a href="somepage. html" target="SomeWin dowTitle"
onClick="window .open('','SomeW indowTitle',
'width=790,heig ht=560,scrollba r=auto,menubar= no');">Enter</a>

P.S.: Watch for spaces in the window properties, they shouldn't be present.


JW

[DU]

Re: Opening new window in Mozilla

Rob wrote:
[color=blue]
> Why does the following code NOT work in Mozilla, but it DOES in IE
> (for Mac) and Safari?
>
> <a href="somepage. html" onClick="window .open('somepage .html',
> 'SomeWindowTitl e', 'width=790,heig ht=560, scrollbar=auto,
> menubar=no');"> Enter</a>
>
> Please help...thanks[/color]

As coded, your link will not open a requested popup if javascript is
disabled. As coded, your link will create a popup and then load the
referenced resource in the opener too. As coded, the popup will exceed
the available space for application in MSIE, Mozilla and Opera browsers
so error compensation/correcting functions will need to spend time, cpu
to render the window within the os-workarea for applications.

<a href="somepage. html" target="SomeWin dowTitle"
onclick="window .open(this.href , this.target,
'width=600,heig ht=500,scrollba rs=yes,resizabl e=yes,status=ye s'); return
false;">Enter</a>

will open a popup window in all browsers under normal conditions. Note
that scrollbar=auto will not be honored in MSIE 5+, Mozilla, NS 6+ and
Opera 7. It must be scrollbars=yes. And you must make sure there is no
blank space in the 3rd argument string list.

DU
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