JavaScript - Window.open() Problem In Firefox

Hello

I'm having problems with a very simple bit of Javascript not working with the latest version of Safari for ipads and iphones.

The script in question is used as a 'previous image ' and 'next image' navigation facility, basically closing one pop-up window and opening up another, when viewing a photo gallery.

It has worked perfectly for a number of years on all browsers. It is only the latest version of Safari for ipads and iphones where there's a problem.

On an iphone, the new window unfortunately opens up in a new tab and the existing window fails to close. Mobile Safari soon reaches the maximum of 8 permissible tabs as a user moves through the photos gallery.

On an ipad2, no new window opens and the existing window fails to close.

the website is www.gethigh.co.uk

Code:

}
function picPopup4(page,width,height){
//alert(scroll);
	var a;
	a = width / 2;
	var b;
	b = height / 2;	
	var LeftPosition = (screen.width/2) - a;
	var TopPosition = (screen.height/2) - b;
		window.open(page, "", "width="+width+",height="+height+",toolbar=no,header=no,location=no,resizable=yes,"+"left="+LeftPosition +",top="+TopPosition+",scrollbars=yes");
		window.close();

}

and this is an example of the code creating the navigation within each pop-up window

Code:

<tr>
    <td align="center"><a class="link8" href="javascript:picPopup4('legslip1.html','560','770');" target="_self">
        previous image</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="link8" href="javascript:window.close()">close
        window</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="link8" href="javascript:picPopup4('breaking2.html','505','800');" target="_self">next
        image</a></td>
  </tr>

I'll come clean and admit I'm not a programmer and have a very basic and ancient understanding of HTML coding. My website must be approaching double digit years old (which will be immediately apparent if you view its structure). I can usually resolve most things, and maintain its functioanality when needs be, but this particular problem has got me stumped.

I've come onto this forum to see if anyone could provide a simple work-around ? Or if anyone would know if this is a bug within Safari which may be rectified soon (a search through the Apple forums gave no clues). I'm loathed to make any major updates/changes to my site, as despite its age it renders beautifully on all browsers except the latest ipad/iphone Safari.

Cheers and hopefully thanks in advance

Garry

....

Using onclick=window.open function in js to open a pdf file link in a new popup window.

Works fine to display the file onscreen, but not if the user wants to save the file client-side to their computer.

The right-hand-button context menu for the mouse will allow the user to download, but the file saved will be a html dump file for the webpage
and the name of the file will be that for the webpage.
Of course I can use the easy <a href> method for download links and the mouse context menu options will be as expected,
but I can only use target="-blank" or target="_self" .
I need a popup window to open.

Could use :
oncontextmenu="alert('Left click the link to open, and then SAVE from with the pdf viewer')
to advise users how to save the file, and could use
"javascript: void(0)"
to eliminate most mouse context menu options, so the user won't bother try.

So how can I get a link to a file which can be viewed in a popup window and downloaded using mouse right-hand context menu?

Any advice massively appreciated!

window.open() doesn't open an entirely new window in FF3.6, just a new tab

suggestions?

Edit: Yeah, ok, so if i specify a size smaller than the current standard window, it'll be forced to open a new window. but what if i want a new standard sized window to open entirely? and in any case, i wan t amore direct solution where possible, thanks.

Hi

Ive found out how to force another browser window to open at a certain size when a link is clicked.

Here's the whole line of code including the layer, the javascript and the image,

<div id="Layer6" style="position:absolute; width:10px; height:8px; z-index:6; left: 561px; top: 310px"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('navigation%20instructions.htm','','width=50,height=50')"><img src="images/info.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"></a></div>

How do I adapt this so I can also specify the x&y co-ordinates of the opened window relative to the window that launched it.

thanks alot

Masten

I am using a window.open to trigger a mailto: command.
I don't want the window to stay open so I try to close it right after.
The default email client launches correctly, but the window stays open and I get the following Javascript error:
Unable to get value of the property 'close': object is null or undefined

Code: Code:

var win = window.open(mailto_link,'emailWindow');
win.close();

I do write some php, but have not much idea about JavaScript.

I use window.open to open 10 pages simultaneously. I prefer to open them with a time delay from each other to put less load on the target server. This is my code with no delay. (I played around with setTimeout but can't get it to work.)

PHP Code:
<a href='http://www.".$new[9]."' 
onclick="window.open('http://www.".$new[0]."/');
window.open('http://www.".$new[1]."/'); 
window.open('http://www.".$new[2]."/'); 
window.open('http://www.".$new[3]."/'); 
window.open('http://www.".$new[4]."/'); 
window.open('http://www.".$new[5]."/'); 
window.open('http://www.".$new[6]."/'); 
window.open('http://www.".$new[7]."/'); 
window.open('http://www.".$new[8]."/')\" target='new300/'>Open 10</a> 

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++first window+++++++++++++++++++++++++
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
var myWindow;
function christDoes(){
mydWindow=open("second.html", "yes");
}

</script>
</head>
<body><form name="myform" method=POST ACTION="sake.html" ><CENTER>
<B>ENTER YOUR SUBJECT</B><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="subject">
<input type="button" name="ok" value="OK" onClick="christDoes()">
</form>
</body>
</html>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++parent window+++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++child window++++++++++++++++++++++
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function me(){
displayColor();
}
function displayColor() {
callWindow=window.open("third.html","fine");
}
var m=0;
var fSubject = self.opener.document.forms[0].subject.value;
if(fSubject.length>0){
if(isNaN(fSubject)){fSubject="";}
else{opener.alert("Please enter figure");}
numSub=parseInt(fSubject);
if(numSub==2){var strSub="ab";}
self.document.write("<center>" +"ENTER SUBJECT HERE" +"</center><br>");
var mercy="<HTML><BODY>"
mercy +="<FORM ACTION='save.html' METHOD='POST'>"
mercy +="<CENTER>"
sub=new Array(strSub.length);
for(var i=0; i<sub.length; i++){
m++;
mercy +=m +"<input type='text' name='sub[i].toLowerCase()'>" +"<BR>";
opener.alert("You have entered" +m +"subjects");
}
}
mercy +="</CENTER></FORM></BODY></HTML><BR></BR>";
self.document.write(mercy +"<BR>");
self.document.bgColor="pink";
self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT'>" +"<center>");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload='me()'>
</body>
</html>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++child window++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++new window+++++++++++++++++++++
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function help(){
self.document.write("this is me")
self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT'>" +"<center>");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="help">
</body>
</html>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++new window+++++++++++++++++++++
Can somebody help me with the code to make this button work? In the parent window when 2 is input in the textbox and 'OK' button clicked, the second window opens with 2 textbox and 'SUBMIT' button. If 'SUBMIT' button is clicked in the child window i want it to open the new window. Please help me out. Thanks. God bless in Jesus name.

+++++++++++++++++++first window+++++++++++++++++++++++++
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
var myWindow;
function christDoes(){
mydWindow=open("second.html", "yes");
}

</script>
</head>
<body><form name="myform" method=POST ACTION="sake.html" ><CENTER>
<B>ENTER YOUR SUBJECT</B><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="subject">
<input type="button" name="ok" value="OK" onClick="christDoes()">
</form>
</body>
</html>
+++++++++++++++++++first window+++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++second window++++++++++++++++++++++
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function me(){
displayColor();
}
function displayColor() {
callWindow=window.open("third.html","fine");
}
var m=0;
var fSubject = self.opener.document.forms[0].subject.value;
if(fSubject.length>0){
if(isNaN(fSubject)){fSubject="";}
else{opener.alert("Please enter figure");}
numSub=parseInt(fSubject);
if(numSub==2){var strSub="ab";}
self.document.write("<center>" +"ENTER SUBJECT HERE" +"</center><br>");
var mercy="<HTML><BODY>"
mercy +="<FORM ACTION='save.html' METHOD='POST'>"
mercy +="<CENTER>"
sub=new Array(strSub.length);
for(var i=0; i<sub.length; i++){
m++;
mercy +=m +"<input type='text' name='sub[i].toLowerCase()'>" +"<BR>";
opener.alert("You have entered" +m +"subjects");
}
}
mercy +="</CENTER></FORM></BODY></HTML><BR></BR>";
self.document.write(mercy +"<BR>");
self.document.bgColor="pink";
self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT' onClick='window.open('third.html', '')'>" +"<center>");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload='me()'>
</body>
</html>
++++++++++++++++++++++second window++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++third window+++++++++++++++++++++
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function help(){
self.document.write("this is me")
self.document.write("<center>" +"<input type='button' name='submit' value='SUBMIT'>" +"<center>");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="help">
</body>
</html>
++++++++++++++++++++++third window+++++++++++++++++++++
Can somebody help me with the code to make this button work? In the parent window when 2 is input in the text box and 'OK' button clicked, the second window opens with 2 text box and 'SUBMIT' button. If 'SUBMIT' button is clicked in the child window i want it to open the third window. Please help me out. Thanks. God bless in Jesus name.
*ADDED* Though i am advised to add 'window .open' as one of the arguments to the OK button which i did yet it doesn't work somebody please help me out! I am using Mozilla 3.6 could this mean that it doesn't support this?

i have this code i need to close the parent.html window when the child window opened, i need the code for that working well in IE and Firefox


Parent.html


<HTML>

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
function sendTo()
{
window.open('child.html','_blank','resizable=yes,width='+(screen.width-500)+',height='+(screen.height-500)+'');

}



</SCRIPT>



<BODY >
<form name="form">

<input type="text" value="" name="text1" id="pdetails1">
<input type="text" value="" name="text1" id="pdetails2">
</br>


<input type="submit" value="submit" onClick="sendTo()">

</BODY>
</HTML>


child.html

<html>
<body>
<form>
<input type=text name="text5" value="">
<input type=submit name="submit"value="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Hi,

In my "main.js" file I need to create a new window with a button. If the button clicked a function in the "main.js" file is called. I tried the following, but new window does not see the function in the "main.js" file.

function create_new_window()
{
my_window = window.open ("","mywindow1","status=1,width=350,height=150");
my_window.document.write('<H1>My Window ...</H1>');
my_window.document.write('<form><input type="button" value="Submit" onClick="submitData();"/></form>');
....
}

function submitData()
{
...
}

Code:

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
function DoSearch() {
if (document.frmSearchID.txtIssueID.value != "") {
if (isNaN(document.frmSearchID.txtIssueID.value)) {
alert('Issue Numbers must be numeric');} 
else {document.location = "http://www.****.com/Apps/AddIssues/EditIssue.asp?IssueID=" + document.frmSearchID.txtIssueID.value + "&ProjectID=LRUSTARS";}}}
</SCRIPT>
            <FORM style="display:inline" target="_blank" action="http://www.****.com/default.asp?ProjectID=LRUSTARS#" name="frmSearchID" onSubmit="javascript:DoSearch();return false;" method="post">
          		<INPUT class="formField1" name="txtIssueID">
                <INPUT class="formBox" onClick="javascript:DoSearch(); return false;" type="submit" name="search" VALUE="Search">
            </form>

Cant seem to get it to open in a new window any help?

Hi All:

I have a problem with a free script for an internal site search and I would like to tweek. I know nothing about javascript so be patient. What I want to do is to open a new window when you select a hyperlink in the results returned page.

Here's the relevant code:
Code:

// ---------- script properties ----------

var include_num = 1;
var bold = 0;

// ---------- sites ----------


var s = new Array();

s[0] = "JSE^form.html^Enter JSE in the example above ...^open source, free, client side";
s[1] = "JSE DOCUMENTATION^doc.txt^JSE is a client-side local site search engine. Written entirely in JavaScript 1.3 it works with browsers from Netscape 4.7 to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ...^ faq, docs, instructions";


// ---------- end of script properties and sites ----------


var cookies = document.cookie;
var p = cookies.indexOf("d=");

if (p != -1) {
	var st = p + 2;
	var en = cookies.indexOf(";", st);
	if (en == -1) {
		en = cookies.length;
	}
	var d = cookies.substring(st, en);
	d = unescape(d);
}
var od = d;
var m = 0;
if (d.charAt(0) == '"' && d.charAt(d.length - 1) == '"') {
	m = 1;
}

var r = new Array();
var co = 0;

if (m == 0) {
	var woin = new Array();
	var w = d.split(" ");
	for (var a = 0; a < w.length; a++) {
		woin[a] = 0;
		if (w[a].charAt(0) == '-') {
			woin[a] = 1;
		}
	}
	for (var a = 0; a < w.length; a++) {
		w[a] = w[a].replace(/^\-|^\+/gi, "");
	}
	a = 0;
	for (var c = 0; c < s.length; c++) {
		pa = 0;
		nh = 0;
		for (var i = 0; i < woin.length; i++) {
			if (woin[i] == 0) {
				nh++;
				var pat = new RegExp(w[i], "i");
				var rn = s[c].search(pat);
				if (rn >= 0) {
					pa++;
				} else {
					pa = 0;
				}
			}
			if (woin[i] == 1) {
				var pat = new RegExp(w[i], "i");
				var rn = s[c].search(pat);
				if (rn >= 0) {
					pa = 0;
				}
			}
		}
		if (pa == nh) {
			r[a] = s[c];
			a++;
		}
	}
	co = a;
}

if (m == 1) {
	d = d.replace(/"/gi, "");
	var a = 0;
	var pat = new RegExp(d, "i");
	for (var c = 0; c < s.length; c++) {
		var rn = s[c].search(pat);
		if (rn >= 0) {
			r[a] = s[c];
			a++;
		}
	}
	co = a;

}


function return_query() {
	document.jse_Form.d.value = od;
}

function num_jse() {
	document.write(co);
}

function out_jse() {
	if (co == 0) {
		document.write('Your search did not match any documents.<p>Make sure all keywords are spelt correctly.<br>Try different or more general keywords.');
		return;
	}
	for (var a = 0; a < r.length; a++) {
		var os = r[a].split("^");
		if (bold == 1 && m == 1) {
			var br = "<b>" + d + "</b>";
			os[2] = os[2].replace(pat, br);
		}
		if (include_num == 1) {
			document.write(a + 1, '. <a href="', os[1], '">', os[0], '</a><br>', os[2], '<p>');
		} else {
			document.write('<a href="', os[1], '">', os[0], '</a><br>', os[2], '<p>');
		}
	}

}

You can see the search feature in action at http://qualityhealthplans.com It works great but I want to be able to select a particular page hyperlink and open it in a new window without leaving the search results page.

Can anyone help?

Hi I'm new here and need some help;

I spent so long with this and need either a miracle or a javascript expert!

I have the code below which is used to open up a chat window, the problem is all browser treat this as a pop up and block it!

What could be changed to get round this?

$chat = "window.open( '" . SK_Navigation::href("private_chat", array("userKey"=>$pr_key, "oppUserKey"=>$opp_key, 'is_esd_session'=>1 )) . "', '', 'height=540,width=415,left=100,top=100,scrollbars=no,resizable=no' );";

Thanks
dr

Hi all, I found this bookmarklet which I'm using in Firefox.

Would anyone here be willing to modify it to display its results in a new tab, instead of using the current tab?

Thanks in advance.

Code:

javascript:q=""+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?
document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)
q=prompt("Search terms [leave selection and box blank to list all pages] 
...").replace(/\s\+/g,"%252B");if(q!=null)location="http://www.google.com
/search?q="+q.replace(/\s+/g,"+")+"+site:"+location.hostname;void(0);

when a user click on a link, it would open a new window in HTML it is something like this:
Code:

<a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">click here</a>

How do I do this in Javascript? So a user would click on the link and it would open a new window. Here's my code
Code:

document.writeln('<tr><td>' + "http://google.com" + '</td></tr>');

I know window.open(url) would open a new window, but how do I make it clickable??

Any comments or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
thanks