Target Window Name

jayaramgussy · #1 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 11:52

In My HTML page, the link first time should be opening in a new window (Target name="JaiInfo"), Next time onwards (Page contain several links, the rest of links are open in the existing Window) Other links should be open in the same target name.
Please help me to solve this problem.

Lchad · #2 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 12:03

How is the page designed?
Frames?
XHTML/Css?

Marc · #3 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 15:47

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alexgeek · #4 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 15:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by jayaramgussy

In My HTML page, the link first time should be opening in a new window (Target name="JaiInfo"), Next time onwards (Page contain several links, the rest of links are open in the existing Window) Other links should be open in the same target name.
Please help me to solve this problem.

the target for a new window is _blank

Marc · #5 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 16:00

Isnt _blank depreciated and therefore will make your code invalid?

karinne · #6 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 16:01

The target attribute is deprecated actually

Marc · #7 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 16:07

I knew something to do with that was depreciated

alexgeek · #8 (**permalink**) Sep 18th, 2007, 16:07

It's been a while since I've used frames/targets etc.
so sorry

jayaramgussy · #9 (**permalink**) Sep 19th, 2007, 12:41

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<HTML>
<body>
<A HREF="http://www.google.com" TARGET="Jai"
onClick="Window.open('http://www.google.com', 'Jai', 'status'); return false">Google</A><br/>
<A HREF="http://www.inbox.com" TARGET="Jai"
onClick="window.open('http://www.inbox.com', 'Jai', 'status'); return false">
Inbox</A><br/>
<A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com" TARGET="Jai"
onClick="window.open('http://www.hotmail.com', 'Jai', 'status'); return false">
Hotmail</A><br/>
<A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com" TARGET="Jai"
onClick="window.open('http://www.yahoo.com', 'Jai', 'status'); return false">
Yahoo</A><br/>
<br/>
</body>
</html>

This is the code. Its working fine. But the problem is, first time if click on any one link in this html will open a new window, then if u minished that opened window and again you click on the other link it will open the existing Window (target="Jai"). But i didn't get any indication that the Jai Screen had changed. I need to resurface that window (I dont need the alert message). that window just refresh and show to the user.
Please help me

Jahze · #10 (**permalink**) Sep 20th, 2007, 22:44

Because you are returning false in the onClick handler the href and target attributes have no effect on what happens when you click on the link. To use those attributes properly do this

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<script type="text/javascript">
var my_window = null;

function focusWindow() {
    if ( my_window == null )
        my_window = window.open( "", "Jai", "status" );
    my_window.focus();
}
</script>

<a href="http://www.google.com" target="Jai" onclick="focusWindow();">Google</a>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="Jai" onclick="focusWindow();">Yahoo</a>

But since it seems like the target attribute is deprecated then here is a better way:

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<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function() {
    var specialLinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
    for ( i = 0; i < specialLinks.length; i++ ) {
        if ( specialLinks[i].className == "specialLink" ) {
            specialLinks[i].onclick = function() {
                updateWindow(this.href);
                return false;
            };
        }
    }
};
var my_window = null;
function updateWindow( href ) {
    if ( my_window == null )
        my_window = window.open( href, 'Jai', 'status' );
    else
        my_window.location = href;
    my_window.focus();
}
</script>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" class="specialLink">Google</a>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com/" class="specialLink">Yahoo</a>

Or, you could manually add the onClick handler that does updateWindow() for each <a> tag if there isn't that many.

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