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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Window.open invalid argument

Just a hint about a simple problem could happen to you while writing javascript code to open a new browser window using window.open, it may give you the following error message box

windowopenerror

in case you wrote it like that:

window.open("http://www.google.com", "This Is My Page", "status=1, width=300,height=500");

where is the wrong argument?

its the name argument "This Is My Page"

You can write it like that (without spaces):

window.open("http://www.google.com", "ThisIsMyPage", "status=1, width=300,height=500");

Note:

It wont give you any errors in firefox in both cases, this error just happen in IE.

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for your post.
I really appreciate it.

Anonymous said...

I also thank you.

Anonymous said...

Thanks - I just ran into issue and this post was helpful.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Man, do I hate IE. Thanks for this.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the Post... It saved my day....

Anonymous said...

Thank you!!

Unknown said...

Your the best this problem drove me to drink.

Anonymous said...

Very Thank you.

Anonymous said...

Thank you!!

Anonymous said...

24.ThankYou for you help. just to add to this it will also happen if you are using – in the window name aswell as spaces Ie my-new-site. will not work in IE