cordedpoodle — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 22:09:42 +0000

The answer to this problem is to open the navigator window as a child of the content window. The content window also needs a function with these two methods to size and locate it:

window.opener.moveTo(300,0)
window.opener.resizeTo(800,600);

My problem was that I was trying to open the content window as a child of the navigation window.

cordedpoodle — Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:52:31 +0000

Thanks for all the advice. I think I might be able to tweak it now.

dk01 — Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:26:26 +0000

Yeah that's true. Maybe you could try to tweak your plan so that the child window closes instead.
-dk

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 28 Dec 2002 03:21:53 +0000

FYI, if you're closing a child window spawned by a script on your page, then you'd get no warning, but if you try closing a user-opened client, there will be a warning.

dk01 — Sat, 28 Dec 2002 01:19:35 +0000

Rob's response is correct. You could do what he is saying but would still get the warning about "This window is trying to close itself. This is a security feature on IE/win. I wish there was a workaround but there is not since it is meant for security. Sorry. guess you will just have to find another way to do it.
-dk

ROB — Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:46:05 +0000

Quote: Unfortunately because I already have one onload I can't do a "onload = windowclose()" can I?

sure ... you can do some thing like this:
onload="MM_openBrWindow('index2.html','index2','width=280,height=160,top=0,left=0');window.close();"

or write a function for it:
&lt;script language="javascript"&gt;
function dothings() {
  MM_openBrWindow('index2.html','index2','width=280,height=160,top=0,left=0');
  window.close();
}
&lt;/script&gt;

<body onload="dothings()">