Opening window works in Firefox, not in IE?

[TheElephantMan]

Hi, all.

I have an innocuous line of code in an internal site that I'm developing that allows us to keep a close eye on the mischief that one of our systems gets into.

There's a summary page that lists errors in an HTML table, and then each error links to a detailed piece of text, in a popup window. Here's the code:
<a href="JavaScript:window.open('

http://localhost:2854/AlarmDetail.aspx?host=VRSIVR1&id=102665','Alarm

Detail','height=400,width=600'); void 0;">An application error was not caught.</a>

In Firefox, this opens right up. In IE, I get a page error, indicating an "Invalid Argument." I'm stumped; what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
TEM

 

[feherke]

Hi

"Alarm Detail" is an invalid target window name. You can not have space in it. Explorer is more sensible to such things because it sets up a lot of proprietary accessors, contrary to the DOM.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[TheElephantMan]

Oh, duh.

That shows you how long it's been since I've done web programming; I was confusing that with the <title> tag on the page I'm trying to open in the window.

Works like a charm, thanks!
TEM