Dreamweaver - How do I CLOSE a popup window then LINK to another page?

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How do I CLOSE a popup window then LINK to another page?

Canned Heat

2006-02-24, 10:16 pm

Example:

-Two normal html pages: A and B
-Page A has a link that opens op a popup window, 350 wide
-Page A also has a link to page B
-If the user clicks the link to page B, I do not want to have it open
in the 350 window. I want it to normally open.

How do I create a double action - that when a person clicks on link to
page B, it first closes the popup window then links to page B

Hope that made sense.

Thanks.

Nancy Gill

2006-02-24, 10:16 pm

> -If the user clicks the link to page B, I do not want to have it open
> in the 350 window. I want it to normally open.
>

make sure the target is _self.

> How do I create a double action - that when a person clicks on link to
> page B, it first closes the popup window then links to page B

you can create a JavaScript function so the link is <a
href="java script:myfunction()">

and then the function, which goes enclosed in JavaScript script tags, in the
head of the document ..

function myfunction {
window.close();
window.open("pageb.html", "newwindow", "height=100,width=300")
}

may not be quite the right syntax, but it's close.

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> Hope that made sense.
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> Thanks.