Can you check if a popup was allowed?

[MrSki]

We are creating online courses that use popup windows for a lot of the items within it. One of the biggest complaints we get are people who can not "see the course" when they click to start it. In most cases, they have had a popup blocker that stopped a window from opening.

Is there a way for the calling window to verify if a popup has opened and, in the case where it does NOT open, display a message to the user to check or disable their popup blocker?



Mitch Duszynski

 

[vbkris]

maybe (this is not tested)

win=window.open....
timer=setInterval("CheckOpen()",100)

function CheckOpen()
{
if(typeof(win)=="undefined")
{
alert("Do you have a popup blockcer?")
clearInterval(timer)
}
}

Note:win and timer must be global objects...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[cLFlaVA]

What I would do:

function openWindow(url, name, settings) {
    var w = window.open(url, name, settings);
    if (!w)
        alert('The window was not opened');
}

<a href="page.html" onclick="openWindow(this.href,'win',''); return false;">Click Me Or Die</a>

*cLFlaVA
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