set the focus of a popup window everytime

Question

I have two pages one.html and two.html

i am opening a new window using following code

//here popup is a global variable
popup=window.open('two.html','two');

for the first time a popup window open successfully and get the focus but if i try to open it again without closing already opened popup then two.html is not getting focus for the second time.

note: i have set popup window's name as 'two'

Answer 1

you can achive by using focus function as used below

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function popitup(url) {
    newwindow=window.open(url,'name','height=200,width=150');
    if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()}

      if (!newwindow.closed) {newwindow.focus()}
    return false;
}

// -->
</script>

Answer 2

You can close the popup before you open it if you check to see if the popup is already open when you call the function.

var popup;
​function openPop() { 
    if ("close" in popup) popup.close();
    popup = window.open("http://stackoverflow.com", "test", "width=200, height=200");​​​​​​​​
}

​This will ensure the popup always appears on top.

Answer 3

focusedWindow = window.open('two.html','two').focus();

Directly append the focus() to the window.open protoype

Answer 4

Check your Firefox 2 settings at

1. Go to Tools -> Options -> Content
2. Make sure "Enable JavaScript" is turned on.
3. Next to "Enable JavaScript", click the "Advanced" button.
4. Make sure that there is a check-mark in the box [x] Raise or lower windows

If the setting "Raise or lower windows" is turned off, then this disables the window.focus() method.

Answer 5

window = window.open('two.html','two'); window.document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].focus(); //focus the body rather than the window.