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I need to open a link into a new small window.

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+2 A:

Well, this works for me in Opera. It's valid HTML, too.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>Test popup</title>
</head>

<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
//-->
</script>

<p>the link:
<img src="notice.png"
    alt="Google"
    width="241" height="200"
    style="border: 0;"
    onclick="MM_openBrWindow('http://www.google.com','google','scrollbars=yes,width=650,height=500')"&gt;


</body>
</html>

And this is better:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>Test popup</title>
</head>

<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
  window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
//-->
</script>

<p>the link:
<a href="http://www.google.com" onclick="MM_openBrWindow('http://www.google.com','google','scrollbars=yes,width=650,height=500'); return false;">

<img src="notice.png"
    alt="Google"
    width="241" height="200"
    style="border: 0;"></a>


</body>
</html>

It's better because (a) there's a link, so you'll see the "hand" icon for the mouse; and (b) the link actually goes somewhere, so people with javascript turned off can still get to the content. (The "return false" on the "onclick" attribute means that people with javascript turned on only get the popup link. The "false" stops the browser following the normal link.)

TRiG 2010-01-18 19:04:29

yea, this worked. i don';t know why the actual dreamweaver code didn't work though. Thanks a lot.

2010-01-18 19:11:02

I've added a second version since you made your comment. The second is, I think, better.

TRiG 2010-01-18 19:12:45

yea, i think i'll use the second version. thanks for your help.

2010-01-18 19:23:42

+1 better answer :)

Shoban 2010-01-18 20:46:30

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