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window.open on IE not working?

Adam Stoller

TeamSite 6.5SP1 / Solaris 9

Got kind of weird problem (as far as I can tell) - I've got a custom menu item CGI script that contains the following bit of code: function selectValues(){
window.open(values_url, "Select Value",
"height=700,width=550,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,location=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,titlebar=no");
}where values_url is of the form "/iw-bin/iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi/script.cgi/key1=val1;key2=val2".

In Firefox (Mac and Windows) if I click the button, a window opens with the script pointed to by the URL.
In IE 6.0 (on Windows) if I click the button - nothing happens (no error, no nothing), and there's no pop-up blocker.

I modified the url to begin with "http://tsservername/iw-bin/..." but that didn't make any difference

I tried creating a simple HTML file on the local disk of the PC using essentially the same code (hard-coded to go to http://www.yahoo.com) and it seemed to work just fine.

I hard-coded "http://www.yahoo.com" for the url in my CGI script - still doesn't work in IE.

Anyone have an idea why the window.open() call wouldn't work in IE when called from my cgi script?

(I haven't yet tried to download install the .NET framework and Fiddler to see if that helps - I may try that next week if I have to, but I'd rather not)

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

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Gregg Faus

What version of Windows and SP are you running on the client?

LooseCannon

how are you calling the function?

example:

href="javascript&colon;selectValues();"

Adam Stoller

What version of Windows and SP are you running on the client?

In at least one case... W2K SP4 with IE6 SP1

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Adam Stoller

how are you calling the function?

I'm sorry - meant to include that in my earlier post:...
<body>
...
<form action='/iw-bin/doed_cm_massmetachange.ipl' name="qform" onSubmit='return validate_fields();'>
<table border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='0' width='100%'>
...
<tr>
<td align='right'>Change the value to:</td>
<td>
<input name='new_value' type='text' size='40'/>  
<input name='nvb' type='button' value='Select Value' onClick='selectValues();'/>
</td>
</tr>
...
</table>
...
</body>

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Migrateduser

> "height=700,width=550,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,location=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,titlebar=no"

Has to do with that part of the line in the function. I took that out and it worked. Perhaps an option is wrong?

- jason

LooseCannon

Remove the space in the window name: "Select Value"
I think the name arg can only contain alphanumerics and underscores

Migrateduser

You beat me to it! Was just going to say the same thing. However, if you removed all of the window controls it does work with a space in the name of the window ("Select Value").

- Jason

Adam Stoller

BINGO - I changed it to "Select_Value" and now it works - sheesh.

Thanks much!

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Adam Stoller

It's a puzzle - but I'd rather live without the space - it's simpler to change and know what the effect of the change will be.

Thanks to both of you.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com