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Andrew Fox
Andrew Fox

Reputation: 890

How to make child window stay on top?

I am using window.open to open a child window from the parent window. I want the child window to stay on top so the user can refer to it while making an entry in the parent window. Can this be done? I'm using Firefox at the moment, but it would be a bonus if it worked in all browsers.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 39107

Answers (6)

John Page
John Page

Reputation: 363

I wrestled with this for a long time. It seems to be a bug in FF, but I noticed that after the new window opens, if I click on it, it does get focus and comes to the top. However calling window.focus() on it didn't work, so I guessed it was happening too early.

So in the new window code, at the bottom of the page I added 

setTimeout(function(){window.focus()},100);

It does not feel like solid practice but if you need it to work... The 100mSec seems to be the lowest that works on my system.

Upvotes: 0

3dgoo
3dgoo

Reputation: 15794

How about using a popup div instead of opening a new window?

Upvotes: 4

Hemant
Hemant

Reputation: 1

<html>
    <script language="JavaScript">
    <!--
    function openWin(){
      var myBars = 'directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no';
      myBars += ',titlebar=no,toolbar=no';
      var myOptions = 'scrollbars=no,width=600,height=400,resizeable=no,top=10, left=10';
      var myFeatures = myBars + ',' + myOptions;
      var newWin = open('test.html', '', myFeatures);
      newWin.document.close();
      newWin.focus();
    }
    -->
    </script>
    <body>
    <form>
      <b>Click the following button to open a new window: </b>
      <input type=BUTTON value="Open" onClick='openWin()'>
    </form>
    </body>
</html>
    </html>

Upvotes: -1

Hemant
Hemant

Reputation: 1

<html>
    <script language="JavaScript">
    <!--
    function openWin(){
      var myBars = 'directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no';

      myBars += ',titlebar=no,toolbar=no';
      var myOptions = 'scrollbars=no,width=400,height=200,resizeable=no,top=10, left=10,';
      var myFeatures = myBars + ',' + myOptions;
      var myReadme = 'This is a test.'

      var newWin = open('', 'myDoc', myFeatures);

      newWin.document.writeln('<form>');
      newWin.document.writeln('<table>');
      newWin.document.writeln('<tr valign=TOP><td>');
      newWin.document.writeln('<textarea cols=45 rows=7 wrap=SOFT>');
      newWin.document.writeln(myReadme + '</textarea>');
      newWin.document.writeln('</td></tr>');
      newWin.document.writeln('<tr><td>');
      newWin.document.writeln('<input type=BUTTON value="Close"');
      newWin.document.writeln(' onClick="window.close()">');
      newWin.document.writeln('</td></tr>');
      newWin.document.writeln('</table></form>');
      newWin.document.close();
      newWin.focus();
    }
    -->
    </script>
    <body>
    <form>
      <b>Click the following button to open a new window: </b>
      <input type=BUTTON value="Open" onClick='openWin()'>
    </form>
    </body>

Upvotes: 0

Manish Nagar
Manish Nagar

Reputation: 1046

yes you can do this by this code you have give onBlur="self.focus()" in body for child window

    //Parent page...
    <html>
      <body>
      <a href="#" onClick="window.open('two.html','sdvwsv','width=200,height=200');">here...</a>
         </body>
     </html>


   //Child page...
         <html>
          <body onBlur="self.focus();">
               here...
              </body>
          </html>

Upvotes: 0

jikey
jikey

Reputation: 394

this popup layer is also good: DOMWindowDemo.

Upvotes: 4

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