This method uses the link.
<a href="#" onclick="openPopUp('popUp.html')">
The use of #
as the link means that no link is actually
taken: the link is being used to execute a javascript function.
Close pop up window and click the following link to open it again.
This method uses a special form of link which just executes a javascript function.
<a href="javascript:openPopUp('popUp.html')">
The general syntax of the open
function is
open(UTL, windowName, windowFeatures)In the
windowFeatures
string there should be no spaces.
Other useful features are menubar="yes"
, resizable="yes"
,
scrollbars="yes"
, toolbar="yes"
, and
status="yes"
.
Note that the javascript designers cannot spell: use resizable
not resizeable
.
The default values are "no"
. Click the following link to see a
popup window with these values turned on.