JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 6. Working with Browser Windows

The window is the most important interface element in a Web browser, and as you might expect, JavaScript provides you with many tools to manipulate windows.

Don’t Kill Those Pop-Ups!

This chapter is all about creating and working with windows using JavaScript. There’s a name for these windows; they’re called pop-up windows, and they’ve become a bane to many a Web surfer. We’re going to be showing you some benign uses of pop-up windows, but if you’re having trouble getting these examples to work, it may be because you’ve turned off pop-up windows in your browser, or because you have other software running that kills pop-up windows. While browsers should open any pop-up that you’ve explicitly chosen to open, ...