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**PhillipM** · Feb 18, 2002, 06:03

I'm having problems with opening URLs in a new window. I don't know any Javascript and cobbled this together using Dreamweaver 4.

The URL opens in a new window, but the original page then also goes to the new URL. I obviously want the original URL to stay where it is and the new URL to open in the new window.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's the script.

This is in the head
<script language="JavaScript">

</script>

This is in the body.

echo "\t<td nowrap height=\"30\" colspan=\"3\" class=\"mmedia\"><a href=\"$web_address\" onClick=\"MM_openBrWindow('$web_address','NewspaperLink','toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=300')\">$web_address</a></td>\n";

**cybercodeur** · Feb 18, 2002, 16:06

Is this stuff php? I believe echo is php...

However, I think your problem comes from the fact that your a href tag has no target specified to it. Try putting traget="_blank" in your code as follows (or simply paste this in place of what you had before):

echo "\t<td nowrap height=\"30\" colspan=\"3\" class=\"mmedia\"><a href=\"$web_address\" target="_blank" onClick=\"MM_openBrWindow('$web_address','NewspaperLink','toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=300')\">$web_address</a></td>\n";

Hope this helps! Good luck!

**PhillipM** · Feb 19, 2002, 16:10

Thanks for your help, Cybercodeur

The language is PHP. Putting the target in works, but not quite.

What happens now is that the target page, which is exactly the same size as the original page, loads. And also the target page loads in the dimensions that I have specified in the code.

So what I have is three pages.

- one original page.
- one target page, same size as the original.
- one target page, but in the dimensions that I specified.

All I want is the original and the target page, with appropriate dimensions.

Again, thanks for your help.

**cybercodeur** · Feb 19, 2002, 16:17

Do you mean you have a page that loads back into another frame next to it? Like if your left menu (for example) got duplicated in your content zone?

**Anarchos** · Feb 19, 2002, 16:19

You need to change <a href=\"$web_address\" to <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"

**PhillipM** · Feb 21, 2002, 02:01

Things are a little better but still not quite right. I have adopted your suggestion Anarchos and am getting a new window in the dimensions that I want.

However, I am getting another window which is the same size as the original window. This has javascript:void(0) in the address line.

Cybercodeur, I am not sure what you mean. I am not using frames. I am just getting two new windows instead of one, when I click on the URL.

Here is the code that is output after the database query. It may reveal something.

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Media Search</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript">

</script>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="file:///C|/MyMedia%20Database/Web%20Download/mmedia.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<center>
<h1><font face="Tahoma">MyMedia Search Results</font></h1>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
</form>
<table bgcolor="#D0D0D0" border="6" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" >
<tr>
<td class="mmedia" width="68" height="-3" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b><strong>Outlet</strong></b></td>
<td height="16" width="200" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="mmedia"><b>Address</b></td>
<td nowrap height="16" width="107" class="mmedia"><b>Phone </b></td>
<td nowrap height="16" width="108" class="mmedia"><b>Fax Number</b></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td rowspan=2 width="68" height="35" bgcolor="#00CCFF" class="mmedia"><b>2BS</b></td>
<td height="16" width="200" class="mmedia">PO Box 310 Bathurst NSW 2795</td>
<td nowrap height="16" width="112" class="mmedia">(02) 6331 9403</td>
<td nowrap height="16" width="108" class="mmedia"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="30" colspan="2" class="mmedia"><a href="mailto:stereo@2bs.com.au">stereo@2bs.com.au</a></td>
<td nowrap height="30" colspan="3" class="mmedia"><a href="javascript:void(0)" target="_blank" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('http://www.2bs.com.au','NewspaperLink','toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=300')">http://www.2bs.com.au</a></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#ffffff">
<td colspan=6> <br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan=2 width="68" height="35" bgcolor="#00CCFF" class="mmedia"><b>2MCE</b></td>
<td height="16" width="200" class="mmedia">Panorama Avenue Bathurst NSW 2795</td>
<td nowrap height="16" width="112" class="mmedia"></td>
<td nowrap height="16" width="108" class="mmedia">(02) 6338 4010</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="30" colspan="2" class="mmedia"><a href="mailto:2mce@csu.edu.au">2mce@csu.edu.au</a></td>
<td nowrap height="30" colspan="3" class="mmedia"><a href="javascript:void(0)" target="_blank" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('http://www.csu.edu.au/2MCE/','NewspaperLink','toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=300')">http://www.csu.edu.au/2MCE/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#ffffff">
<td colspan=6> <br></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>4 row(s) selected</p>
<p><a href="index.html">Return to Start Page</a></p>

</center>
</body>
</html>

**Anarchos** · Feb 21, 2002, 13:17

Take out target="_blank" on the links.

**PhillipM** · Feb 21, 2002, 13:40

Thanks, Anarchos.

It worked well.

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