Comments on: Doing Pop-Ups the Right Way with jQuery

By: Abram Ribar

Abram Ribar — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:40:07 +0000

Hey, I came across this blog post while searching for help with JavaScript. I’ve recently switched browsers from Chrome to Internet Explorer 7. Now I seem to have a problem with loading JavaScript. Everytime I browse site that requires Javascript, the page freezes and I get a “runtime error javascript.JSException: Unknown name”. I can’t seem to find out how to fix the problem. Any help is very appreciated! Thanks

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:23:19 +0000

Hi,

Great code!

How do I make it a pop-under e.g. so it opens under the current window?

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:34:31 +0000

Now officially a jQuery plugin. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/open

I’ll be working on additional documentation in the days to come.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:03:15 +0000

Nice script … client wanted this exact functionality in a site and I didn’t want to pollute my html with inline js … this solution is perfect … +1 for a plugin.

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:54:10 +0000

Thanks for all the great comments. I’m going to try to work them all into an update to my hosted example code. (May even think about turning this into a jQuery plugin.)

By: Alex O

Alex O — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:16:09 +0000

In addition to changing ‘resizeable’ to ‘resizable’ as Shawn pointed out I also changed the util.js on the window.open to focus on the target window in case it was already opened and hidden:

wo = window.open(href, windowName, useParams);
return wo.focus();

By: Shawn Dalton

Shawn Dalton — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:10:59 +0000

NOTE:
resizable NOT resizeable
otherwise the resizing wont work in IE

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:29:02 +0000

Thanx DJ, this was exactly the unobtrusive solution I was looking for.

Ever thought of turning it into a jQuery plugin?

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:40:56 +0000

@gary: Probably didn’t work because jQuery wasn’t in the zip file. I’ve updated the zip with a Google-hosted version of jQuery so it should work for you.

Best,
DJ

By: gary

gary — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:07:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I just download and tried the code, it seems no working under ff3 and ie6, nothing pops up but new window tab