window.open problem

Hey guys i encountered a problem recently....I am trying to creat a link to a window where the user can write down his name email and message and send it to a cgi script i installed in netfirms.com.....anyways everything is fine except from <A tag when its click the window pops but the window where its clicked from the whole window clears and this is shown '[object]'....what am i doing wrong......this is the code for the <A> tag im using.

The window.open method only takes 3 parameters - filename, window name and features. You have your features split up - width and height need to be within the single quotes together, not separately.

Try using:

href="javascript:var win=open('http....

Hit me back if it works.

That should do it double dog!
-Meezee

Actually meezee, you should always use the correct DOM referecing, so when calling the 'open' method, you should preface that with 'window' - and there is no need to return the value.

Thanks guys but i solved my problem....it seems that rather than adding the script in the <a> tag it works when I call a function from the <A> tag...so i just defined a function in the header and called it from <A> works fine...pretty weird ay..the functions got the same script its just returning...

Check your window.open call - did u fix the parameters problem? It works either way, but I bet you've fixed the bug I pointed out first up.

Just noticed you've used a different case for your "a" tags. The new HTML specification (XHTML) requires that all HTML elements are written using lower case. While you can still use either case for HTML 4 (& 4.01), it's recommened you use lower case now to makes life easier on yourself later. Here's a few other differences in the XHTML spec, if anyone's interested - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs

My question deals with the window.open method but what I am trying to do is dynamically size the height of the new window by using a variable. At first I tried using some asp code to run through my database and count the items for that day then multiply that times 100 and assign it to an Application variable. I couldn't seem to pass the value of that variable to the javascript so I've tried using if statements right in the script which is working fine. The problem is when I call the window.open code and try to pass the variable to it it's not recognizing it. Here is an example of the code:



I've only included the parts of the code that are affected but it's taken from my dropdown menu script. When I hard code the height it works fine. I've tried adding different brackets around it, different quote configurations, you name it. I even tried calling an include file and using the asp variable directly: height=<%Application("winsize")%> or height=<!-- #include file=getheight.asp-->

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

"winsize" is a variable, not a constant, therefore it needs to be seperated from the window.open statement. Like this:

Thanks so much for the help. It was driving me crazy. I couldn't understand why I was able to pop an alert(winsize); in my code and see that the variable contained a value but it wasn't being seen by the other code.