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Jun 22.2004

Hello Gurus,

I was wondering if it was possible to invoke a built-in method such as window.open() and break up the arguments across multiple lines.

For example:

<a href=”#” onclick=”window.open(‘url.htm’,’window’,’i want to break
this string of features up into multiple lines and still have it work’;return false)>

I realize that I could create a new function that simplifies the way the arguments are passed to this built in method, however I’m trying to get it to work without doing that. I have a server side programming language that has to create the code, and unfortunately the server side language is limited to 132 characters per line before I am forced to insert a linebreak. Does anyone have any idea?

Much Abliged,

Lorn K

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@VladdyJun 22.2004 — What kind of server-side language is that???

The only thing I can think of

'part of the string'+

'another part of the string'
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@lkilianauthorJun 22.2004 — The server side language is a proprietary language that is probably unknown unless you work for a credit union. It is part of an AIX based PL1 programmed language for our data processing system.

The server side language is not important here. I realize that you can break up strings as you pointed out using the string concatenation operator:

'string fragment1'+

'string fragment2'

However, I am unable to break up strings that are part of the arguments for a built in method such as window.open()

window.open() has four possible string arguments which are [I]url, name, features and replace[/I]. If I break up any of these strings using string concatenation, the javascript engine in the web browser cannot interpret the code properly.

Has anyone else broken these strings up?
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@lkilianauthorJun 22.2004 — Nevermind,

I got it to work finally using:

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('https://cspqa.epscu.com/paylinkcsphelp/faqs/faqs.htm','window','menubar=no,'+

'height=600,width=800,top=0,left=0');return false">FAQs</a>

I messed up the name arguement that was throwing it all off.
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