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This is a continuation from here:
[url]http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75033
Opening a pdf in a popup seems to cause problems. Save the following and open in your browser.
[CODE]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function popIt(url) {
var leftPos = screen.width – 720;
ref = window.open(url,”thePop”,”menubar=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,height=400,width=710,left=”+leftPos+”,top=0″)
ref.focus();
}
function killPopUp() {
if(!ref.closed) {
ref.close();
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>1. Click here: <a href=”http://www.webdeveloper.com” target=”ref” onclick=”popIt(this.href);return false;”>Open html page in a popup</a></p>
<p>2. Click here: <a href=”javascript:killPopUp();”>Close the popup</a> </p>
<p>3. Click here: <a href=”http://illiad.evms.edu/sample.pdf” target=”ref” onclick=”popIt(this.href);return false;”>Open pdf in a popup</a> </p>
<p>4. Click here: <a href=”javascript:killPopUp();”>Close the popup</a></p>
<p>Both popups are created using the exact same function. The attempt to close the popups is performed by the same function. The html page closes, but the pdf does not. Why??? </p>
</body>
</html>
You will see that the function killPopUp closes the popup when the popup opens an html page. However, if the popup loads a pdf, the function fails (No error message). It makes me think that the opening of a pdf somehow changes the window name.
Thoughts?