Javascript Popup

[sean04]

Hey,

 

So I have this:

 

echo "<a href=\"javascript:window.open('page.php','name1','height=320,width=240');\">pop-up</a>";

 

In Chrome, the popup works great, in IE the pop up take a while to popup and then the page itself where the popup link was goes white and says [Object].

 

Any ideas? Not sure why it doesn't work in IE.

[F1Fan]

What is on "page.php?" Sounds like it may be that page.

[sean04]

Theres a form. The thing is, the link for the popup is edit_profile.php. after the link is clicked, edit_profile.php turns white with the word [object] on it.

[F1Fan]

OK, forget the pop-up aspect for a second.

 

If you manually navigate to edit_profile.php in IE, what do you get?

[sean04]

I get my edit_profile.php page with no problems

[F1Fan]

Hmm. Is it possible that what you're naming your pop-up something that is significant? Try removing various parameters. Try this first:

echo "<a href=\"javascript:window.open('page.php');\">pop-up</a>";

[DavidAM]

Your link is not properly formed. the HREF attribute indicates that a new page should be opened.  When the window.open() funtion runs, it returns an object, and that is what the white page is telling you.  I'm not sure you can accomplish this with HREF.  You could use the ONCLICK attribute (instead of the HREF) but then you might not get the visual indicators that it is a link (use CSS to change the style of that link).

<a onclick="window.open('page.php','name1','height=320,width=240');">pop-up</a>

[F1Fan]

DavidAM is totally correct. I completely overlooked the fact that you weren't using the onclick event. Generally I use href="#" when there isn't one, so I'm not sure how various browsers will react with having no href attribute.