A new pop up window will not obey a close command from original page.

Marc · Nov 23, 2003

I am trying to create a new window from which the original page can
close that new window. For some reason the following code will not
work. Passing the window.open command to a variable called myWindow
does not work with the mouse event, but it seems to work fine with a
javascript: URL command. I would prefer to do it with the mouse event.

Please assist. I can not find any documentation for this in any of my
books.



<html>
<body>

<a href="#" onMouseDown="var myWindow=window.open('text.html',
'bobby', 'width=200, height=200');">Open</a>.
<a href="#" onMouseDown="myWindow.close();">Close</a>.

</body>
</html>

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen · Nov 23, 2003

I am trying to create a new window from which the original page can
close that new window. For some reason the following code will not
work. Passing the window.open command to a variable called myWindow
does not work with the mouse event, but it seems to work fine with a

<a href="#" onMouseDown="var myWindow=window.open('text.html',

The contents of the onmousedown attribute value is used as the body of
a function. That means that "var myWindow" declares a local variable
in that function ....

<a href="#" onMouseDown="myWindow.close();">Close</a>.

.... which is not visible from another function.
Drop the "var" and it should work.

Btw,

'bobby', 'width=200, height=200');">Open</a>.

spaces in the configuration string confuzes some browsers. Remove the
space before "height", and it should work in more browsers.

Add ",resizable=yes". In the cases where 200x200 isn't enough (and
with user stylesheets, there can be some that you can't predict),
you should allow the user to resize the window. If the content fits,
he probably won't resize anything, so it doesn't hurt to add it.

/L

Marc · Nov 23, 2003

Thank you. That definately worked. I also found articles on local and
global variables, and I have a better understanding of how it works.

I will also be sure to follow the guidelines for the pop up window.

Thanks,
Marc

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A new pop up window will not obey a close command from original page.

Marc

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