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Reputation: 683

Window.open not working on jquery

I am calling below jquery method to export the table details into PDF. PDF file is created in the java class while it is called and available in the path C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.40\webapps\TestProj\PDFfiles and the JSP where im having this script is loacted at C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.40\webapps\TestProj\WEB-INF\jsp But window.open is not working. I can get the alert message of "PDF generation success ---"

Any idea? Please help.

function openPDF() {
        $.post("generatePDF", {action : "get"}, function(data) {
            if (data.returnStatus == "SUCCESS") {               
                alert("PDF generation success ---");
                var win = window.open('', 'fullscreen=no');
                win.location.href = '../../PDFfiles/TestPdf.pdf';
                win.focus(); 
                //window.open('../../PDFfiles/TestPdf.pdf', 'fullscreen=no');

            }
        }, 'json');     
    }

I have tried below snippet also but no use..

window.open('../../PDFfiles/ShopsListPdf.pdf', 'fullscreen=no');

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1625

Answers (1)

Rohit Agrawal
Rohit Agrawal

Reputation: 5490

window.open works only on user actions like click but if there is a delay after that it will be blocked by browser. delay like you have made in ajax call. So try to execute window.open asap after click

Note: sometimes when ajax call come too fast due to cache or something, the window.open may work, it happens to me lot of time, specially when I was trying to make a facebook login here the link when I posted a question fb login popup block

Upvotes: 2

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