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Topic: Javascript window.opener

Posted By: VBScript
Subject: Javascript window.opener
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 5:27pm

I have a pop-up window and by using javascript I want to use the window.opener function to change the URL of the page that opened it.

How would I go about doing this?

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http://www.james-r.co.uk" rel="no follow - James
http://www.gotrillian.com/?4498-20" rel="no follow - Trillian - M

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Posted By: aks427
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 7:40pm

window.opener.location="url";

Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 8:11pm

Thanks!

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http://www.james-r.co.uk" rel="no follow - James
http://www.gotrillian.com/?4498-20" rel="no follow - Trillian - M

Posted By: skwfalcon16
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 7:36am

So I'm using the old javascript pop-up window code that WWF use to use:


Javascript Code:

//Function to open pop up window
function openWin(theURL,winName,features) {
      window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}

ASP Code:

Response.Write ("                  <a href=""javascript:openWin('/dsp/includes/pop_up_event.asp?ID=" & rsEvent("Event_ID") & "','" & rsEvent("Event_Title") & "','toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=0,width=600,height=400')"">")

It works just fine in FF, but throws an error in IE and won't open. I thought it might be pop-up blocker or something, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

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Posted By: aks427
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 3:18pm

What is the error, and can you post the code that is actually outputted, instead of the ASP?

Posted By: skwfalcon16
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 7:28pm

My bad. Here is what the HTML looks like:


From FF:
<a href="javascript:openWin('/dsp/includes/pop_up_event.asp?ID=14','Prospect Social','toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=0,width=600,height=400')">Prospect Social</a>

From IE:
<a href="javascript:openWin('/dsp/includes/pop_up_event.asp?ID=14','Prospect Social','toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=0,width=600,height=400')">Prospect Social</a>

And the Javascript just for reference:
//Function to open pop up window
function openWin(theURL,winName,features) {
      window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}

The error that is says is
Line: 4
Character: 4
Error: "invalid argument"
Code: 0

Here is the top 4 lines of the page too, but I don't think that has anything to do with it:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

And the open window function is the first one in my included javascript file, so I'm not real sure where the Line 4, Character 4 issue is.

This one has me stumped...so odds are it's fairly simple.

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Posted By: aks427
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 8:05pm

Your problem is coming in the new window's name. Firefox can accept a space, but IE can't.

For the name, do something like this instead.

Replace(rsEvent("Event_Title")," ","")

Posted By: skwfalcon16
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 8:08pm

Awesome!

Thank you!

(I knew it would be something simple...which is why I missed it)

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