Need Help: window.open() not working in IE8 1

[invalid4564]

I'm trying to open a new window to show a contact form but it is not working in IE8. When i open the website in firefox and click on the link, it works perfectly.

How can i fix my code so it also works in IE8?

<div styles="width:70px;height:30px;font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#000000;text-align:center;">
Email:<a href="javascript:location='[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.currentpage.html';window.open('http://www.nextpage.html','Contact[/URL] Agent','height=700,width=490,
scrollbars=yes,resizable=no')">agent@website.com</a>
</div>

Thank you for your help.

 

[Diancecht]

Any pop-up blocker?

Cheers,
Dian

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Your window name has a space character in it ('Contact Agent'). This can cause issues with some browsers.

Remove the space and try again.

Hope this helps,
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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Yup... removing the space worked for me in IE 8.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

In fact, this makes perfect sense if you read the specs. Given the second parameter is the window name (which can be used to target the window via the TARGET attribute), it should probably have the same naming rules as the "name" attribute, which can be found here:

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

So basically, no spaces.

Dan



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[invalid4564]

Success...I removed the space and it worked.

Thank you very much everybody for your help.