asp:content - configuring onload event

[DarwinIT]

I have a requirement to launch a secondary page as a pop-under when a certain page opens. That page uses a master page and asp:Content object - so there is no body tag to tweak in the aspx markup.
The way I understand I need to do a pop-under is to launch a new window object via javascript and call the blur method on that window object. I'm not sure how to fire up that javascript without a that is generic to the master page. I tried setting the attribute to that but that is not working. The ID of the body tag is dynamic with the value set by a property called BodyID

HtmlGenericControl _body = (HtmlGenericControl)Master.FindControl(Master.BodyId);

comes up with null for the _body object. I'm thinking the assignment hasn't occurred yet in the Page_Load method??

Anyway - perhaps there is a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ca8msm]

Rather than popping up a new window, could you just use an AJAX request to get the relevant HTML and show that? If so, JQuery makes this a breeze with it's get/load/ajax methods.

Mark,

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[DarwinIT]

The business requirement is to show a thank you page after a client places an order and then popping under a second window which they will find later which suggests other things they might be interested in (marketing games (and bs).
I think I just figured it out. I'll put some <% variable/property %> in the master page and will only populate that value with onload=xxx on the pages where I want to use this popup. In theory that should work.

 

[DarwinIT]

That did the trick. I could not just put in a <% something %> without a valid property - so I put in Onload="<% variable %>"

and then I set the variable to innocuous javascript so nothing is done - unless the pages I want to invoke the pop under window are invoked. Then I set the variable to contain the open window javascript

TheNewWin =window.open('" + "pagename.aspx','TheNewpop','toolbar=1,location=1,directories=1,status=1,menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1');TheNewWin.blur();

Thanks for the feedback.