SillyDog701

[bonefishjoey]

Hi there.

I'm using Dreanweaver and I open a new window when the user clicks on an image. How do I stop the user being forced to the top of the main window and thus having to navigate back to the image when he closes the new window?

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[akbash]

My interpretation: you've built a web page containing an image. When clicked, that image causes a new window to be opened, and simultaneously scrolls the page containing the image to the top of the page.

If I've understood correctly, this is usually caused by HTML that looks like

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<a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.yahoo.com/')">
  <img src="yahoo.gif">
</a>

This construction is simply ignorant, and disappointingly common. The authors of Dreamweaver are not supposed to be dummies. If I were a paying customer, I think I'd let them know I expected better.

In the meantime, it's difficult to prescribe an exact fix not knowing the particulars of your webpage. For my own example, I suggest

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<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_blank">
  <img src="yahoo.gif" alt="yahoo">
</a>

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051113 Firefox/1.5

[Antony]

Hi there.

I'm using Dreanweaver and I open a new window when the user clicks on an image. How do I stop the user being forced to the top of the main window and thus having to navigate back to the image when he closes the new window?

If I understand correctly, you want to provide a window being opened (when user clicks), but that new window is below the current window?

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