Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-30 Thread Donna Jones
Seona: Thanks! I think he's suggesting something along these lines: a href=mypage.html onclick=window.open(this.href);return false;Click me/a To break it down: was able to do that, following your excellent information. Much more comfortable having it set up like this and learned some,

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread Donna Jones
not sure why there would be trouble copy/pasting data, i don't have any trouble selecting it. Copy a bit. Paste it in another window. Go to copy another bit. Oh, its gone. oh! Windows are not things that usually vanish because you give your attention to something else for a moment, so this

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread David Dorward
Donna Jones wrote: No, the bio link itself, and it doesn't work without JavaScript. It just links to the top of the page. so, ended up trying to fix this but have no clue how to do it. Have the href attribute point at something sensible (not #). Have the JavaScript do what you want, and

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread Donna Jones
No, the bio link itself, and it doesn't work without JavaScript. It just links to the top of the page. so, ended up trying to fix this but have no clue how to do it. Have the href attribute point at something sensible (not #). Have the JavaScript do what you want, and return false from it to

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 30/03/07, Donna Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have the href attribute point at something sensible (not #). Have the JavaScript do what you want, and return false from it to prevent the link being followed. i suppose i understand what you're saying but i don't know javascript, i don't

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
Donna Jones wrote: hi everyone: i have some pop-ups that are part of a fairly old design and have been working on updating the code as i go. i've used onblur=window.close(); (in the body tag) to have the pop-up close after it loses focus, but Tidy says, onblur is proprietary and doesn't

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread Donna Jones
i've used onblur=window.close(); (in the body tag) to have the pop-up close after it loses focus, but Tidy says, onblur is proprietary and doesn't like it. is there something i can use instead? I'd suggest avoiding closing the window when it looses the focus altogether. Last time I

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
Donna Jones wrote: Hi David: thanks for your response. I don't think I have the same circumstances you describe but not sure, would you mind looking at this page: http://www.mainehumanities.org/programs/litandmed/synapse/sym-temp/feature_s07.html# its the bio link. It is the same

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread Donna Jones
Hi David: thanks for your response. I don't think I have the same circumstances you describe but not sure, would you mind looking at this page: http://www.mainehumanities.org/programs/litandmed/synapse/sym-temp/feature_s07.html# Thanks again David: It is the same circumstances as I described

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
Donna Jones wrote: It is the same circumstances as I described previously, although my browser seems to have become smarter since I last ran across anyone doing something like that and doesn't automatically give the window a focus to lose when it opens now (of course, if I want to copy/paste

[WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-27 Thread Donna Jones
hi everyone: i have some pop-ups that are part of a fairly old design and have been working on updating the code as i go. i've used onblur=window.close(); (in the body tag) to have the pop-up close after it loses focus, but Tidy says, onblur is proprietary and doesn't like it. is there