Is there a way to change where "previous" button in browser goes?
The problem is the following:
User enters page
User clicks thumbnail image
Large image appears in popup window (lightbox) and URL CHANGES from http://example.com/ to http://example.com/this-image-link/
I click "Previous" button in browser and URL CHANGES from http://example.com/this-image-link/ to http://example.com/ but POPUP doesn't disappear (and page doesn't refresh).
How would I make it go back to http://example.com/ and close my popup after clicking "Back" in browser?
I suggest you do some reading on manipulating the browser's history. Those links will certainly give you a good intro:
History API
MDN Manipulating the Browser History
This JS Library should also help you, if you want to overcome cross-browser limitations and evade JQuery, as suggested above.
History.js
Try using the jQuery Hashchange plugin. Registers the hash change event for all browsers.
http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-hashchange-plugin/
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I created a simple JavaScript function to display my pop-up window once it loads. But it keeps on being blocked by Firefox and Google Chrome and I have to somehow enable it on the Firefox and Chrome to display the pop-up.
Are there any alternatives for this?
I have a player on the pop-up window so I have to use a pop-up to let the player play automatically. The problem is that if I put it on the page itself, once the user clicks another page the entire page reloads and the player automatically stops for a few seconds until the whole page reloads and I have to prevent this from happening.
The general rule is that popup blockers will engage if window.open or similar is invoked from javascript that is not invoked by direct user action. That is, you can call window.open in response to a button click without getting hit by the popup blocker, but if you put the same code in a timer event it will be blocked. Depth of call chain is also a factor - some older browsers only look at the immediate caller, newer browsers can backtrack a little to see if the caller's caller was a mouse click etc. Keep it as shallow as you can to avoid the popup blockers.
Please take a look at dthorpe's answer here. It covers your question.
You could try putting the player on the original page, and using something like History.js to control page changes (you could have the main page body in one wrapper div that changes, and leave the player outside of it).
Otherwise, you could try (assuming you meant a HTML5 <video> or <audio> player) downloading the data to localStorage/cookie/[other persistent storage mechanism] and have it seek everytime you change a page.
It will be hard to stop browsers from blocking your pop up window, because any way to do so is inherently exploitable; however, if you call the function to open another window from an onclick event, you may be able to circumvent some popup blockers. Also, some popup blockers allow popups when using the https protocol, although not many have this feature, and https can be hard to implement for the average website, if you don't have physical access to the server.
One other option is to open the other page in another tab (like this w3c example; you can 'click' the link with javascript).
You might also want to look at this post, as it is somewhat similar.
I only just discovered you asked this question.
Here's the answer in full.
Basically, you can simply create the popup immediately as the user event is fired, then fill it with content (your player, for instance) as you have it available.
I am using window.open() method to open a page as a pop-up window for a link button click event.
But the poup-up window is having minimize,maximize,close(x) button.
I dont want those buttons. How can remove these buttons?
This is the method i am using,
window.open(url,"Link","toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,titlebar=no,scrollbars=1,resizable=0,width=450,height=310,left=500,top=350");
Tell me how can do this.
Regards,
Chirag Jain.
You can't.
If you want a popup style window without full window decorations you'd have to create a new overlay <div> on top of the existing content and fill that with content, perhaps using an <iframe>.
You can't do it from javascript alone. Think about it, if you could, then people could put it into code on web-pages and cause other people's computers to open windows they couldn't easily close.
Instead you'll have to look for an answer specific to whichever browser you're using to host this application, and change it on the computers of your users appropriately. Even then though I don't think you'll be in luck (with Firefox for example, I can see how to get rid of them on all browser windows, but not on just one).
I remember that facebook did something similar,
Lets say you loaded facebook.com, browsed around a bit and then opened a new tab to read some news, meanwhile you had updates to your facebook feed, but they would not be automatically displayed when you switched back to the facebook tab, only when you switched to the facebook tab they would then fire the event for fetching the feed updates.
How is this done?
It can by done by detecting in javascript if the browser window gained focus.
Dynamic changes on the page or ajax calls are probably done only when the browser window has focus. More about detecting browser window focus in javascript:
Is there a way to detect if a browser window is not currently active?
I've made a nice page with links that scroll the window to a specific section. I really like this feature, but it creates an annoyance if you click the links too many times - the back button is clogged with all of the hashtag changes. I was wondering if it's possible to scroll the page without creating a url for the browser 'back' button to hook on to.
Afaik if you just use $("#id").scrollTo(); it does not cause url changes.
Assuming you are using the scrollTo plugin....
We'd like to have a message popup when a visitor to specific webpages leave those webpages. So we could tie some Javascript to the links on those webpages, but then we can't control if the user exited the webpage by typing in a URL, using a bookmark or just closing the window...
I assume we have limited options if the user tries closing the browser window... but I do know it's possible because Google Docs' Documents offers the chance to cancel closing the window if you have unsaved work while closing the browser.
What are my options? Can I have Javascript called upon going to another webpage? Can I control the text in the popup when trying to close the window?
I'm using jQuery, so if there are good solutions implemented with jQuery that's perfectly fine.
Yes.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.onbeforeunload
jQuery UI Dialog OnBeforeUnload
There is onunload event you can bind to, first example:
http://www.codetoad.com/javascript/miscellaneous/onunload_event.asp