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HTML - Creating Pop Up Windows!
Popup Windows: The Basics
We'll begin the tutorial by creating a basic popup window. The technique described here addresses all the major issues in popups. The popup always comes to the front. Different links can target the same popup. The code is simple and easily modified. Everything for the rest of the turorial is a variation on the theme described here. The code in this page creates a popup that is opened from a link. In this section we'll show the code with just the minimal description you need to get it going. First, copy this script into the <HEAD> section of your page: HTML Code: <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>
For now we'll skip the details of how the script works, and move to the next step. The script above opens the popup, but something needs to run the script. The most common situation is that the script is run when the user clicks on a link. A link like the following would run the script: HTML Code: <A HREF="popupbasic.html" onClick="return popup(this, 'notes')">my popup</A> Most of the link is as usual. The URL of the page being linked to is in the HREF attribute. We've added an additional attribute called onClick. Copy the code as it is into your link, with only a small modification. The second argument of the popup() -- 'notes' -- indicates name of the popup window. Every popup window should have its own unique name. Be sure to put the name in single quotes (''). So if you want to name the popup 'stevie' then this would be the code: HTML Code: <A HREF="popupbasic.html" onClick="return popup(this, 'stevie')">my popup</A> Read This Next Part Or You'll Go Insane Trying to Figure Out Why Your Popup Doesn't Work A small but crucial point is often overlooked. The command in onClick must begin with return or the script won't work. Be sure to start the command with return like this: HTML Code: onClick="return popup(this, 'notes')" And don't put a space in the page name between the single quotes. If you do, the link will act just like a regular link. Popup Windows: From an Image Map In our first variation we'll open the popup from an image map instead of from a regular anchor. We'll use the same script as from our first example. With that script, an <AREA ...> tag in an image map can be made to open a popup in exactly the same way as an <A ...> tag: HTML Code: <MAP NAME="index"> <AREA HREF="mypopup.html" ALT="My Popup" COORDS="10,10,120,120" SHAPE=RECT onClick="return popup(this, 'gloss')"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT ALT="Your Popup" COORDS="140,10,180,50" HREF="yourpopup.html" onClick="return popup(this, 'gloss')"> <AREA SHAPE=DEFAULT NOHREF> </MAP> <IMG SRC="mymap.gif" HEIGHT=130 WIDTH=190 ALT="Image Map Example" BORDER="0" USEMAP="#index"> Popup Windows: Opening Automatically In the first two examples (Popup Windows: The Basics and Popup Windows: From an Image Map) the popup is opened when the user clicks on something. In this example the popup opens automatically. We'll use the same script as in the first example. Copy this script in the <HEAD> section of your page: HTML Code: <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>
This time, instead of running the script from a link we'll run it from the onLoad attribute of the <BODY ...> tag. HTML Code: <BODY onLoad="popup('autopopup.html', 'ad')">
The command in onLoad is run when the document is finished loading. Like in our previous example, the command runs popup(), but this time the first argument for popup() is a little different. In the previous example we put this, meaning the link itself, and the script got the URL from the link. In this case there is no link so we pass the actual URL to open. So in our example we put 'autopopup.html'. Popup Windows: From a Form For our next variation on the popup theme we're going to open the popup from a form. In this example we're going to change the script around. The following script is custom designed for opening a popup from a form. It works with forms that use both POST and GET. Copy the following script exactly as-is into the <HEAD> section of your document: HTML Code: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function popupform(myform, windowname)
{
if (! window.focus)return true;
window.open('', windowname, 'height=200,width=400,scrollbars=yes');
myform.target=windowname;
return true;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
Now we'll add some code so that the popup opens when the user submits the form. Add an onSubmit attribute to <FORM ...> tag: HTML Code: <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="../cgi-bin/mypopupcgi.pl" onSubmit="popupform(this, 'join')"> The first argument for popupform() is always this, meaning the form itself. The second argument, 'join' in this case, is a unique name for the popup. Popup Windows: Targeting the Opener Once a popup window has been created, linking from the popup back to the main window (i.e. the window which opened the popup) is a little trickier than might be expected. The problem is that the main window doesn't have a "name" the way the popup window does. Fortunately, JavaScript provides an answer in the form of opener. To create links in the popup window that target back to the main window, first put this JavaScript in the <HEAD> of the popup page: HTML Code: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function targetopener(mylink, closeme, closeonly)
{
if (! (window.focus && window.opener))return true;
window.opener.focus();
if (! closeonly)window.opener.location.href=mylink.href;
if (closeme)window.close();
return false;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
A link that uses this script looks like this: HTML Code: <A HREF="rbex.html" onClick="return targetopener(this)">my page</A> Popup Windows: Closing When They Go to the Opener In the previous example the link in the popup targets the main page, but the popup stays open in the background after the user clicks on the link. In this page we'll set the link so that it closes the popup after the click. targetopener takes three parameters. The first is always this, meaning the link itself. The second and third parameters are optional and default to false. (Notice we don't use them in the example above, we'll get to them shortly.) The second parameter indicates if the popup should close. The third is if the link should actually send the opener to the linked resource, or if the opener should just get the focus regardless of what its current page is. The third parameter provides a safe way to close the popup after closing, but still having a link to an existing page if the window isn't actually a popup (such as if the user found the page through a search engine). When the user clicks on the link, targetopener checks if the browser has the focus command (a few older browsers don't) and if the current window was opened by another window. If these conditions are true, then the opener window gets the focus, the opener is directed to the referenced URL, and the script returns false. Because the function returns false, the link does not go on to the URL (the script has already done that). Note that the link which targets the opener is a little different than the link that opened the popup window to begin with. In this link, onClick says "return goOpener(this)"... the links on the previous pages did not use return. By default, the popup window stays open but is in the background. 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One of my pages is full of hundreads of pictures. When you click them in makes them bigger, but it makes them bigger on the same page. Does anyone have anything that can make any link that is clicked on that page open in a new window. Heres the site. www.jimandanne.net/pictures.htm help would be great, Thanks Hello, I am making this site on a Mac and having no problems with it, untill I look at it in Explorer on Windows PC, where it shows strange gaps in the layout of the tables. Sometimes I solve these problems by changing the background colour or moving an element to the top, but I think Im just busy covering up the main problem and not really solving it. So my question is: Does anybody have an idea what causes this problem, aside from the fact that these are different types of computers, and how to solve it, if there is a common solution to it? http://dixdesign.net/dixdesign/pentecost/index.html If anyone could have a look at it, would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Dix I am trying to create a pop-up window from a link that is within an inline frame. I know the code I am using is correct as when I place the link outside of the inline frame, it works perfectly. It is when the link is placed within the inline frame that it acts up - it opens itself like a regular link within the frame (except that all my pages have frame break on them so it just works to open the page within the same window). 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When you switch from using a Mac program to a Windows program (for looking at your html) your code seem to get condensed. To put that into better words: your returns are not returns anymore, but funky looking boxes. Normally I would not care about this, since Windows is not frequently used in my house, but alas this site is being developed for a Windows user. Anyways, I have tried a few solutions, all to no avail. These attempts went in this particular order: turn off all text edit preferences that could be causing the problem (rich text stuff), then turn on all the rich text stuff (stupid idea I know...), then finally to try saving the file from Dreamweaver. Any help is very much appreciated, Hello, I'm a new web designed building my first web page. I'm using Dreamweaver CS 3. I want to make certain links open in a new window or tab when the user clicks on them, and in Dreamweaver I thought this was done by adding the _top target to the link, but that seems to do nothing. So how do I do this? Website Address: http://taras.shacknet.nu/~public1/plpp/ Thank you! If I want it so that a link is clicked and that I want that link to open up a new page in a new window--how do I bypass the browser's "paranoia" in thinking it's a bad pop-up or spyware activity? I am programming cgi with python I need help, i am using windows, and whenever I save a script as somescript.cgi, It doesn't recognize the file and when I try to open it as a web page it just displays the text I am puting #!C:\Python25\python.exe before every script but it is not working, I need Help! Thank You -HTMLMW I'm posting this here, because I have no idea where else to post it, because I have no idea what my problem is... Here's one of the pages I'm having a problem with: http://apple-ss.net/teachers.php In Firefox, the page shows fine, but in IE7 (maybe IE6 too - I don't know) on Win XP, nothing is showing. I've seen this on three different computers. It's fine in IE7 on Vista though... I checked the source, and everything seems fine. I checked the DOM with the IE developer's toolbar, and it shows nothing in the body. On the menu on the left, the second, third and fourth pages have the same problem. I'm baffled. Any ideas what's going on here? Thanks for any help. Hi, i wanna know how i can lock in html page windows. I have means wis: I writed html page, on 1280:800 resolution but when joined with 1024:768 or smaller resolutions, all windows and menu moved in left - right, up - down because i can't complete my theme. Because i see all peoples see not same things what i seen. How lock windows and all text ? I using html and css but all created on html, all table. Maybe it's code on CSS ? or some..... Please help me, me language first isn't not english. Because i speaking, and writing not wery well. Ive had this code before back when I was in school. It simulated the windows start bar in the explorer where if you clicked the start button a list of directories came up and you could select a htm file within that was linked in it...and it would have a tab in the bottom next to that start button that would allow you to switch between them like tabs essentially. I was wondering if anyone happened to have that code by chance its been a long time and I couldn't seem to find it by searching. Thanks in Advance |
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