Popup works in Mozilla, Firefox (Win & Lin) and Konqueror but not IE??

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Armitage

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That's it basically. I have some popups on a site I'm developing. Basically abbreviation keys, etc. They work fine on:

Mozilla/Linux
Firefox/Linux
Firefox/Windows
Konqueror/Linux

But not on Internet Explorer v6
There it open the popup page in the current page instead of a pop-up window.

Any ideas? I know zilch about javascript ... the code below is basically just a chop-n-drop out of a tutorial I found somewhere.

Here is the relevant chunk-o-code:
 
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stndn

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try this step:
open the page on mozilla.
click the link
on the mozilla address bar, type javascript:
it will pop up javascript console
check to see if there are any errors listed there...

you may also want to clear the error list before doing that, so you don't mix the javascript error generated by your page with the errors from elsewhere.

i kinda don't have time debugging the script for now. but if there are errors, that might help in finding what was wrong.
 
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Cheetah8799

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My only guess is that the window.open() function in IE doesn't act like a popup window. Check around for some other pre-built functions and see if other people use the same window.open() function in theirs.

I've only done a little work with popups, and barely more than that with javascript, so I'm not much help... sorry...

also, make sure you aren't running a popup blocker in IE. ;)
 
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KB

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IE is kind on malformed HTML but picky with its javascript:
Your code needs to be changed to:

<code>


<head>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function popup(mylink, windowname)
{
if (! window.focus)return true;
var href;
if (typeof(mylink) == 'string') {
href=mylink;
} else {
href=mylink.href;
}
window.open(href, windowname, 'width=400,height=200,scrollbars=yes');
return false;
}
//->
</SCRIPT>
</head>

...
<body>
Executed by something like this:
<A HREF='launch_key_pu.pl' onclick="return popup(this, '_blank')">(Key)</A>
</body>
</html>

</code>

Notice I had to add the curly braces to the if ... else statment and the window name needed to be changed to '_blank'
 
MrChad

MrChad

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Try executing that JavaScript function like this:

<a href=&quot;javascript:popup('launch_key_pu.pl', 'Launch Key')&quot;>(Key)</a>
 
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Armitage

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Thanks guys, I'll try it out as soon as my boss gets in. He's the only guy with a windows box that has access through the firewall at the moment.
 
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Armitage

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Originally posted by: KB
IE is kind on malformed HTML but picky with its javascript:
Your code needs to be changed to:

<code>


<head>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function popup(mylink, windowname)
{
if (! window.focus)return true;
var href;
if (typeof(mylink) == 'string') {
href=mylink;
} else {
href=mylink.href;
}
window.open(href, windowname, 'width=400,height=200,scrollbars=yes');
return false;
}
//->
</SCRIPT>
</head>

...
<body>
Executed by something like this:
<A HREF='launch_key_pu.pl' onclick="return popup(this, '_blank')">(Key)</A>
</body>
</html>

</code>

Notice I had to add the curly braces to the if ... else statment and the window name needed to be changed to '_blank'
Click to expand...

The Winner!
Turned out to be the '_blank' that did it. It works fine with or without the braces.
Thanks Greatly!! That's the kinda thing that would have taken me forever to find!

MrChad ... your suggestion doesn't bring up the popup for me on Mozilla or IE.
 
MrChad

MrChad

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Aug 22, 2001
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Originally posted by: Armitage
The Winner!
Turned out to be the '_blank' that did it. It works fine with or without the braces.
Thanks Greatly!! That's the kinda thing that would have taken me forever to find!

MrChad ... your suggestion doesn't bring up the popup for me on Mozilla or IE.
Click to expand...

Just realized the capitalization in my code was messed up.

<a href=&quot;javascript:popup('launch_key_pu.pl', 'Launch Key')&quot;>(Key)</a>
 
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Armitage

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Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: Armitage
The Winner!
Turned out to be the '_blank' that did it. It works fine with or without the braces.
Thanks Greatly!! That's the kinda thing that would have taken me forever to find!

MrChad ... your suggestion doesn't bring up the popup for me on Mozilla or IE.
Click to expand...

Just realized the capitalization in my code was messed up.

<a href="javascript:popup('launch_key_pu.pl', 'Launch Key')">(Key)</a>
Click to expand...

Oops, yea, I see it now also. I'll maybe give that a try in a bit.
 
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