Re: How to pull window to the foreground - Window Focus

Bastien Koert wrote:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM, WebPat<webpat52@gmail.com> wrote:

Andrew Ballard wrote:

A lot of sites are moving to simulated dialog windows inside the page. They have a few nice benefits: 1) Since they aren't real windows, they do not interfere with other tabs or windows you have open in your browser. 2) Since they are actually part of the page itself, they will always either stay on top of the other page elements or else they will automatically close (whichever effect is desired). 3) They are not actual pop-up windows, so they won't be blocked by pop-up blockers. Granted, they depend on JavaScript, but then so did your other approach. http://www.google.com/search?q=div+popup+window Andrew

Thanks, I hadn't thought about that approach. It's certainly an alternative. I think I have come across some of them on various sites, but I've found them to be quite disagreeable. As you scroll, they often scroll down, then float back to their assigned position. Weird. And they are usually blocking something that I want to see. I don't know if what I'm doing is javascript or not. I never have that identifier on my web page. I do call the Window.Open (function?), so, if that counts then yeah. But I like the separate window better. The user can more easily move it out of the way - even off the browser window - and continue reading the main page while referring to the popup window. I'd actually like to allow the user to create multiple popup windows, which I create from buttons on my webpage, but right now they all go to the same window, and I've had enough trouble trying to get that to work. I'm there now with that last Window.Focus detail - except that Firefox seems to be having a problem with that. But, I'm not going to worry about that. So, for now I'm good. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

If they are all going to the same window, its likely that you have a window.open function that names the window. When the window has a name/id, then any subsequent calls to the window open command will re-use the same window. if you remove the id attribute (the call is usually window.open(url,id,parameters) and substitute an empty string ( '' ) then it should open new windows. Back to the DIVs option, you can write js controls that make the window dragable, hidable etc to improve the users enjoyment of the page

You are correct, the Open names the window. That is done in the Onclick of the button and becomes the Target for an <A>. I need a name for the Target. This works pretty good. I'm not sure many users would open more than one anyway - at least not without getting even more confused. Probably better. I've tried to build this with Html and CSS, and just a little PHP.