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Hi,

The Example u have provided is useful.., moreover i would be happy if been helped to solve a typical problem that your example solves.

I have an application which will be running in a main window. The main window is been spilted into frames. I have a hyperlink from one of the frame from which i will be invoking another modal/modaless window.

My requirement is, I should take the entire control of the main window from which the child window pops up and i should not be able to click any of the links or button that is present in the main window unless i close the child window.

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Ashwin

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I am new at this. Your page was the only one able to successfully get my crummy html editor to auto load a pop up window on page load. grin. Your info was very helpful. I think I cna figure out how to add the size, scroll, menu bar, etc. options ot oyur information to get what I want.

I am trying to use pop up windows to show .jpg's on my own personal page. I want to either click open or auto open an image (picture.jpg) and then have a close button below it. Anyway to do this with creating a new htm page ?
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Jason

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I picked up code from your FAQ page (Q845)and am getting the following runtime error:
Expected ')'
The code causing this is:
popup = window.open('popup.htm','windowName,'width=100,height=100');
The cursor in the debugger is blinking after the "w" in "width".
I cannot figure this out for the life of me.
Can you see any obvious error?
Very Much Appreciation.
Madelyn

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The last feedback article (from Madelyn) had an odd number of apostrophes inside the brackets/parenthesis ... does that help her ?

I've achieved this so far ... to open up a pop up window with two frames and control all the toobars and resizing and location etc ... I make it fill virtually the whole screen based on my screen size 800x600.

I've figured out how to write javascript links which will change the content of the pop-up-window ... and fall back on a html target_top link for javascript disabled browsers..

I've set the pop up window with two frames and I can preload each frame-within-the-pop-up with different html documents. Or I can write on the fly into either or both of the pop-up-framed panels ...

Where I'm having difficulty is in composing a table of javascript links (in the opener document if you will) which will change the contents of the lower-frame-of my-pop-up-window ... all I get is

windowHandle.frameHandle is not an object
windowName.frameName is not an object
window.htmlprefix is not an object ...

the list goes on ...
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I'd be interested in hearing how to handle this situation. The popup window calls a JSP to return a listbox with values based on something entered. It seems that now the value of "opener" is no longer recognized. Is there a way for this to be passed in the submitted request from the popup?

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Great write-up. Best that I found on the internet. Just one more thing would be useful. How would you blur the opener when a pop-up happens?

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to Madelyn:

In the code:

popup = window.open('popup.htm','windowName,'width=100,height=100');

After windowName there should be apostrophe

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that's lovely and tricky.........Thanks alot