[wplug] Web Development....A problem with OnClick......

J Aaron Farr jaaronfarr at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 18 15:07:28 EST 2002


--- "Phil Walther, Jr." <philjr at attglobal.net> wrote:
> Hopefully someone can figure out why this is not working.  I have a bit of
> an issue with the attributes of OnClick and IE....
> 
> Here's the beginning code, using an image map:
> 
> <img src="statemap.jpg" width="269" height="227" border="0"
> USEMAP="#statemap">
> <MAP NAME="statemap">
> <AREA SHAPE=polygon COORDS="74,67,96,166,238,129,242,119,251,117,259,103,
> 243,88,246,55,225,38,96,75,88,59,76,70" ALT="Pennsylvania"
> OnMouseOut="window.status=''; return true"
> OnMouseOver="window.status='Selecting Pennsylvania'; return true"
> ONCLICK="window.open ('state-pa.html', 'PA State Motorcycle Laws',
> 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,
> resizable=no,copyhistory=no,width=550,height=430' ) ">
> 
> By the way, this works JUST FINE in mozilla, but I need to work in IE(6) as
> well.  Silly class assignments!  Anyway, what I found was that:
> 1. The OnClick was giving the problem
> 2. Narrowed down to "window.open
> 3. If I left the attributes of "window.open ('state-pa.html')"  IT WORKED!!
> 4. IE seems not to be enjoying the name or window attributes.
> 
> ANYONE have any ideas why, this is driving me nuts!
> 
> Thanks!
> Phil
> 


For Window.open() 'directories' is NETSCAPE only.
'copyhistory' I have not heard of.

Try it without these two. (The rest _should_ work)

jaaron

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