Changing window focus

[jsolutions]

I want to do something that I thought would be fairly easy. When my index.html page opens, I am opening another page that has content that takes a while to load. I am using the code below.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
<!--
window.open ('page.html', 'newwindow')
-->
</SCRIPT>

This opens a new window with the content. However, the problem is that I then want the focus to go back to index.html. I have tried using self.focus() after the window.open, but whether I use that or not, it seems to throw the focus to the new window.

How can I regain focus to index.html?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Einstein47]

what you might want to do it add the following to your "page.html" to return the focus back to the main window

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=window.opener.focus();
</script>

This way the popup returns the focus instead of the index page trying to keep the focus.

Einstein47
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[jsolutions]

Hi Einstein - thanks so much for the reply. One follow up question. Is there anyway to ONLY trigger this if "page.html" is opened from the window.open command?? In other words, if I have a page "xyz.html" that simply has a link to "page.html" (rather than using window.open), I would not want this to occur. Is that possible? In other words, I want to have the best of both worlds??

Many thanks