J avascript Window Open Issues with Firefox

registered · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:34 am

Ok, this is driving me crazy. I am working on a project where I have a need to open a new window and pass to it the URL to use. I wanted to be W3C strict compliant, so no "target=" attributes are allowed. Therefore, I am trying to use j avascripts window.open command. If I call my open window function from a link anchor tag it works just fine. I format the URL in this case using the & instead of just & like it is supposed to. However, if I call the open window function (same function) from within a straight <s cript> tag statement, no matter whether I build the URL with & or &, FF is automatically forcing the URL to use & and it will not work within a window.open command!! Uuughhh!

Here is the javascript function being called in every case:

Code:




function msnl_OpenWindow(msnl_sURL) {


  ViewNls=window.open(msnl_sURL,'ViewNewsletter','width=800,height=600,menubar,scrollbars,resizable,left=0,top=0');


}

The following code works just fine:

Code:




$url = "modules.php?name=$msnl_sModuleNm&amp;op=msnl_nls_view&amp;msnl_nid=$nid";


echo "<a href=\"j avascript:msnl_OpenWindow('$url')\" title=\""._MSNL_NLS_LNK_VIEWNL."\">$topic</a>";

The anchor tag above displays & in both IE and FF and it passes to the function retaining the & and works just fine.

However, if I call it like this, it does not:

Code:




      $msnl_sURL   = "modules.php?name=".$msnl_sModuleNm."&op=msnl_nls_view&msnl_nid=1";





      echo "<s cript type=\"text/j avascript\">\n"


         ."<!--\n"


         ."if (msnl_iPreviewON) { msnl_OpenWindow('".$msnl_sURL."'); }\n"


         ."msnl_iPreviewON = 0;\n"


         ."//-->\n"


         ."</s cript>\n";

The & signs are being converted by FF's J avascript parser into & and then FF does not recognize the passed URL arguments that were being passed into the new window's url.

I have been pushing on this all morning and just can't seem to figure out what to do to fix this undesireable behaviour in FF.

Any ideas?

TIA,
montego

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Go with transitional instead of strict, imo.

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:28 pm

use the CDATA tag