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Why the heck does this not work

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mspain

mspain

IS-IT--Management
Mar 17, 2002
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Hi all,

I am having quite the frustrating problem here. All I want to do is popup a small window when my main page loads.

Here is what I have for the body tag

<body onload="popupNTN()" bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

The popupNTN is defined as:

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function popupNTN() {
window.open(" return true
}
//-->
</script>

This is not working though! I don't understand. Firefox and IE are not reporting any type of javascript error. What am I doing wrong??

Thanks for the help!
 
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None installed on IE and Firefox will say that it has blocked a popup and it is not showing that. Any other ideas?
 
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Try changing this:

Code: 
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function popupNTN() {
    window.open("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.betacenter.org/PopUp.html")[/URL]
    return true
}
//-->
</script>

to this:

Code: 
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function popupNTN() {
	window.open('[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.betacenter.org/PopUp.html',[/URL] '', '');
	return (true);
}
//-->
</script>

Failing that, make sure you don't have any other code which is overwriting your onload, and do double-check you have disabled your popup blocker.

Dan



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Thanks, I gave that a try and it didn't work either.

I did try using onunload and that seemed to work so I know there is no problem with popups being block or the code being wrong so I would assume that something is overwriting the onload event. How can I go about cicumventing that?
 
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Did you copy and paste your code in for us to see? The code BRPS and you showed should work without a problem.

Lee
 
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I think I have solved it. There was an external javascript being included that had a line window.onload = function() { some function}. I set this function to call my popup as well and it seems to work.

This is a little confusing to me since my understanding is that the onload of the body tag should overwrite any window.onload, but that didn't seem to happen.

Either way it is working now. Thanks a lot!
 
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