The issue in Firefox seems

decibel.places — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:28:43 +0000

The issue in Firefox seems to be how FF handles new windows - if you hold down the CTL key when you click, the new window/tab opens as in IE and the original window is preserved.

I have not found a fix for that yet. I do not think it is possible to simulate the CTL key press and I have tried setting the new window target to "_blank" but no luck.

Amazingly this works for me

marslizard — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:39:44 +0000

Amazingly this works for me in IE6 and IE7. The behavior is strange in Firefox. When I click on the link on the map in the iframe, a new window is opened. However the parent page also goes to google. Any ideas how to keep the parent page from going to google too?

Excellent point! I have

decibel.places — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:00:34 +0000

Excellent point!

I have updated the code above to activate if the mouse is over the iframe...

seems to work in IE, Ffox, Opera

As you noted, you have

decibel.places — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:59:22 +0000

As you noted, you have little control over the Google maps doc in the iframe.

Pop the map open in a new window and retain the original doc in the opener window.

You need to hardcode the map link url into the opener.

UPDATED CODE!

<html>
 <head>
  <title> new document </title>
  <meta name="keywords" content="">
  <meta name="description" content="">
  <script language="javascript">
  <!--
	var gmap = false;
	onunload = function() {
	if (gmap)
		{
		location = self.location.href;
		window.open("http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=W1F+7TA&ie=UTF8&s=AARTsJowriHHOt7le7PzJka7tTgSleZODQ&view=map","googwin");
		}
	}
  //-->
  </script>
 </head>

 <body>
  <iframe onmouseover="gmap=true" onmouseout="gmap=false" class="iframeBorder" width="505" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=W1F+7TA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=51.520654,-0.135956&amp;spn=0.006223,0.019484&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJowriHHOt7le7PzJka7tTgSleZODQ"></iframe>
 </body>
</html>

you could perhaps open a modal window or lightbox - but that is another technique

Hi thanks for the reply,

vneal — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:30:14 +0000

Hi thanks for the reply, i've had a look at your example and it seems to work ok, however there is a slight flaw in that it seems to open endless amounts of windows - so much so that i had to quit my browser as i couldnt keep up with the closing of them lol.

Unfortunately i'm not great at Javascript so would appreciate your advice.
I had thought of the lightbox method, however the client ruled that out as they didnt like it!