IE and Javascript issue with onclick event *** [RESOLVED] ***

[scimini]

I have a web site that has an inline frame and in this inline frame are three dynamic links. Each dynamic link fires a new windows containing the link. The problem is the that after the link is clicked and the page is displayed IE jams the original page off teh browser window and you can only see the bottom portion. Is there any way to stop this behavior.

It does not happen in NS.

[vbNeo]

Originally posted by scimini
I have a web site that has an inline frame and in this inline frame are three dynamic links. Each dynamic link fires a new windows containing the link. The problem is the that after the link is clicked and the page is displayed IE jams the original page off teh browser window and you can only see the bottom portion. Is there any way to stop this behavior.

It does not happen in NS.

Does it jam what's inside the Iframe ? And how does your 'dynamic link' code look ?

[scimini]

document.write("<a href=# onClick=response=false;window.open('LinksPage.html?ID=" + eval(Links) + "','linkwindow','width=800,height=588,scrollbars=no')><img border=0 src=images/Links/" + Links + "_Off.jpg onmouseover=document.images[1].src='images/Links/" + Links + "_On.jpg' onmouseout=document.images[1].src='images/Links/" + Links + "_Off.jpg' alt='" + Description[Links] + "'></a>")

The Iframe contains a page that acts like scroller scrolling through links, when you click on the link it opens a new window display the link.

Not just the iframe jams off the browser but the entire page. It appears to jump up to the iframe that the link scroller was displayed in.

[vbNeo]

hmm weird...

- What does the response=false do ?

[scimini]

I thought it was suppose to ignore the click event and just process the onclick.

I tried it in Netscape and it worked properly.

[bsw2112]

can you provide a link to that page?

i am unsure what you mean

to cancel links you would do this

<a href="http://www.vbforums.com" onClick="javascript:window.open('','win','width=200,height=200');return false;">open</a>

see what happens when you take the stuff in bold out

bsw

[scimini]

The page is in development and not on the web.

I removed the bold text part and the still jumped but the link did not open.

[scimini]

I have a little more information.

The page jumps up to the iframe that the click event was registered. In short the Iframe nows becomes topmargin=0 instead of default.html

[bsw2112]

can you create a dummy page of this?
i have a hard time understand your problem

the code i showed you (the return false) was to demonstrate how you can canel an action, in this case it was the href..

cheers

bsw

[scimini]

I did use the Return False on another page and it solved the problem but for some reason it does not work on this particular page. I will create a dummy page.

[scimini]

Becuase the on click event was not in double quotes the return false did not fire.

Placing the entire thing in double quotes solved the problem.

[CornedBee]

For your information, you may only omit the quotes if your value is either all digits or all letters. Any punctuation or a mix of digits and letters and you HAVE to use quotes. In general, it's good style to always use quotes.
IE is just the best browser at interpreting incorrect HTML.

[scimini]

It is kind of hard to enclose in double quotes when you are building the <input> tag with document.write

[CornedBee]

It's unreadable, but by no means hard. Just use the backslash correctly

[scimini]

I did, it was a mess. Fianlly just moved to ASP for it.